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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Three MillersTime Baseball Contest Winners Named

30 Friday Sep 2011

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We have three winners in two of the 2011 MillersTime Baseball Contests.

In Contest #2, asking if the Nats would have a better or worse record and what their won-loss record would be, there is a tie.

The Nats improved their record from last year’s 69-93 to 80-81, quite probably the best gain of any team this year. They didn’t have a chance to end their season at .500 because a rained out game with the Dodgers was not rescheduled as it would not have affected any of the standings.

And so who were the winners?

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Rays, Cards Deserve It. Sox, Braves Didn’t

29 Thursday Sep 2011

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in the light of the new day, now that I have survived the night (having put away all sharp instruments yesterday afternoon and confining myself to the first floor last night), here are my morning after thoughts:

*Give the Rays and Cards all the credit. They took advantage of the Sox’ and Braves’ decline, had terrific Septembers, and won when they had to. I wish them well for the playoffs and will be rooting for them both in the postseason.

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Cory Booker: “Not on Our Watch”

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

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Some of you have probably know of Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark. Some of you may have heard his name. Lots of you probably don’t know him at all.

When you have 25 minutes to devote to a YouTube video, do yourself, me, and the country a favor by listening to what he recently told an audience.

Click on the link below. You won’t be disappointed.

Each of us, All of us – Cory Booker at Zeitgeist Americas 2011

 

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Elizabeth Warren: The New ‘Values’ Candidate?

25 Sunday Sep 2011

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Elizabeth Warren has only been on the campaign trail for a few weeks in her MA run for the Senate against Sen. Scott Brown.  Already, however, she is exciting many Democrats and worrying some Republicans.

If you haven’t heard or read much about her, check out what she said recently:

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“Moneyball” – See It

24 Saturday Sep 2011

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If you like baseball. See the movie Moneyball.

If you don’t like baseball and/or have never seen a game in your life, still see Moneyball.

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Daughter Moves. Father Loses.

24 Saturday Sep 2011

Posted by Richard in Family and Friends

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“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.”                                                              —  Dave Barry

 

As you probably know, or have read in an earlier post (“Life After New York City“), my favorite younger daughter recently left NYC for Miami and a new job.

And apparently she didn’t even consider, a la Dave Berry, what that would mean for her dear father.

As I was supervising the moving of her furniture a few days ago (she was already off to her new life), it suddenly dawned on me that this move was going to be costly for me. To wit:

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Book Club Anyone?

21 Wednesday Sep 2011

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Anyone out there in the DC area interested in a daytime book club?

How about adding a ‘remote’ link/group for those of you who are wise enough not to live inside the Capital Beltway?

Jane Bradley and myself were talking the other day and thought we might like to start one.

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The Nats Do It Better Than The Sox

21 Wednesday Sep 2011

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Not only are the Boston Red Sox struggling, but in comparison to the Washington Nationals, they come in a poor second when it comes to stadium tours.

On my recent failed trip to Boston, I finally took the one hour plus tour of Fenway Park.  It was disappointing.

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I Failed

20 Tuesday Sep 2011

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I failed.

Miserably.

Both Fenway games I attended (with Sox fans Chris B., Rigo Molina , and MillersTime Baseball Contest winner Jeff F) ended in defeat for the beloved Sox.

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Obama: Pragmatic and Visionary?

20 Tuesday Sep 2011

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(A Lincoln student, also a long time friend and MillersTime reader, emailed the following to me a few days ago — a response to Michael Gerson’s “Failing the Lincoln Test: Obama’s ordinary response to extraordinary challenge,” Washington Post, 9/13/11. Click Here to read Gerson’s article).

from Richard Margolies:

Michael Gerson’s op-ed, 9/13/11, fails the Lincoln vision test. He claims that Obama does not meet our crisis with solutions.   He selectively builds his case and overlooks similarities between these two leaders.

Both Lincoln and Obama responded to fundamental changes facing our nation.  Lincoln saw the country moving to a new manufacturing economy in the 1850s and 1860s.  Obama sees the country moving to a knowledge and service mode of production in the 21st century.

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Life After New York City

19 Monday Sep 2011

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by Elizabeth Miller

I always used to wonder where people moved after they left New York.

I think the answer may be Miami.

For those of you that don’t already know, I recently moved from NYC, where I lived for 10 years, to Miami, FL to work for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (for those interested you can read more about my job at Knight as a Communications Associate).

I’ve survived three full weeks in my new city and the new job, and I have even lived to tell about it.

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MillersTime Readers: Favorite Books Read This Summer

13 Tuesday Sep 2011

Posted by Richard in Escapes and Pleasures

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Here it is:

The List.

Sixty-six books (41 fiction, 25 non-fiction) particularly enjoyed this summer by 35 folks who have succumbed to my badgering to send the titles of their most recent favorites. Much thanx to all 35 of you.

If you missed sending in a title or two, don’t fret. I’ll call again for books in December and post an end of the year list of what folks have enjoyed in 2011.

And one note — it doesn’t matter if someone else has already mentioned a title. One of the ‘benefits’ of the MillersTime list is to see and know what various folks are reading and enjoying.

Keep a list.

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What Am I Doing About the Sox?

12 Monday Sep 2011

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For those of you who are worrying about the recent precipitous decline of my beloved Red Sox, and for those of you who are reveling in that decline, let it be known that I am going to Boston Wednesday morn, Sept. 14th.

I intend to head directly to Fenway for the afternoon game that day and the evening game the next day (paying off a prize to Jeff F., winner of one of the 2011 MillersTime Baseball contests).

A report upon my findings (it’s really all about pitching) will follow.

I do hope to help the situation.

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Two Views on Those Who Are Governing

08 Thursday Sep 2011

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The Outer Loop, one of the four blogs at MiillersTime, is a place where I sometimes comment on local, national, and/or international issues and often link to articles that I think are worthy of your attention.

And as I relaunch MillersTime with a new design (but the same old ‘editor’), I bring you two ‘articles’ that I suspect you have not seen.

Both authors are individuals who are new to me.

One is a life long Democrat who calls himself a ‘country doctor,’ and who believes Pres. Obama needs to be challenged for the nomination because he has failed overwhelmingly in what he said he would do. His name is Joe Mason, and he says he will run for the presidency himself in 2012 if Obama does not respond to questions about why he has not done what he promised.

The other is a retiring Congressional staff member who for 28 years worked on budget, defense, and security issues, primarily for Republicans in both the Senate and the House. His name is Mike Lofgren, and he’s leaving the Hill and the party and tells why.  He also is no fan of the Democrats.

I post them together, not because I am trying to be balanced (for those who have followed MillersTime since its inception, you know I was a strong supporter of Obama’s candidacy and hoped he would be a terrific president). I post them both because sometimes the best insights come from within (a party, an organization, a group), and these two pieces clearly do that. Together, they not only describe our current political landscape but also put words to much of what I have been thinking and feeling about why our politics have become so dysfunctional.

When you have the time, I hope you will read Lofgren’s long and well written statement, which was recently published in Truthout.org., and also listen to Mason’s YouTube presentation (approximately 15 minutes). As always, please feel free to add your comment(s), respectfully.

The two ‘articles’:

1. Click Here for YouTube Presentation — Joe Mason for President

2.  Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Saturday 3 September 2011
by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis

(Photo: Carolyn Tiry / Flickr)

Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!”

Fred MacMurray: “Yeah – only you’re a little more rotten.” -“Double Indemnity” (1944)

Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten – how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats’ health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats’ rank capitulation to corporate interests – no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma.

But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP.

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Frank Rich’s “Day’s End” – 9/11: Who Won?

08 Thursday Sep 2011

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As the 10 year anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11 comes, there are numerous articles, remembrances, pictures, etc. that seem to be flooding all forms of the media, old and new.

One of the articles that I found of particular interest is by a writer I have always enjoyed following, but since his move from the NY Times to New York magazine, I haven’t read much of what he has been writing.

Take a look at this piece that was published a week or so ago. And feel free to comment, respectfully, of course.

Day’s End

The 9/11 decade is now over. The terrorists lost. But who won?

By Frank Rich, New York (magazine)

  • Published Aug 27, 2011

It was “the day that changed everything,” until it didn’t. Even in the immediate aftermath, you could see that 9/11 was less momentous for some ­Americans who were at a safe remove from the carnage and grief. By late September, the ratings at CNN, then 24/7 terror central, had fallen by more than 70 percent. As I traveled across the country that grim fall to fulfill a spectacularly ill-timed book tour, I discovered that the farther west I got, the more my audiences questioned me as though I were a refugee from some flickering evening-news hot spot as distant and exotic as Beirut. When I described the scent of burning flesh wafting through Manhattan, or my ­sister-in-law’s evacuation by the National Guard from her ash-filled apartment on John Street, I was greeted with polite yet unmistakable expressions of disbelief.

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