Cardinals Caravan 2010

Baseball season will be here soon ... opening day for the Double-A Springfield Cardinals is April 15.

The St. Louis Cardinals made their yearly Cardinals Caravan stop in Springfield on Friday. This year the venue was the beautiful new John Q Hammons Arena, home of the MSU basketball Bears and Lady Bears.

Three former Springfield Cardinals players Kyle McClellan, Josh Kinney and David Freese joined Tom Pagnozzi, Al Hrabosky, Kerry Robinson and radio broadcaster John Rooney in greeting the fans and signing autographs.

More photos: http://tinyurl.com/ygmgz4y

Better choices in 2010

Now that the holidays are over and the leftovers are long gone, it's time to make healthier choices this year. I'm not going to do what everyone else usually does, myself included, and concentrate on what NOT to eat but rather on making continual small changes. Adding at least one salad a day, more fruit and vegetables and definitely more water. Making conscious choices will eventually become the norm and putting bad choices in the past.

Happy 2010.

Pork laden stimulus

This should tick you off. This is how your government will take care of you. Seriously?

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George Kissell

SPRINGFIELD, MO 3-28-08 Yadier Molina (left) Rick Ankiel and Tony LaRussa laugh at long time trainer George Kissell's comment during batting practice at Hammons Field Friday night. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Springfield Cardinals 3-2 in game one of a two-game exhibition series. © 2008 Dianna Russell

George Kissell, 88, passed away following a car accident near his Florida home. Kissell was involved with the St. Louis Cardinals for 68 years and was inducted into the Missouri Hall of fame in 2003.

Quote of the Month

Bailout? How about ending income taxes, allowing citizens the chance to put the money back into the economy?

Quote of the month

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
Thomas Jefferson 1802

Career suicide or planned PR stunt?

I lost the last bit of respect today for photographer Jill Greenberg. Not that she would care.

Besides making babies cry for her art and twisting an assignment around to gather material for her own political statement, she attacks John McCain with her sick, manipulated photos on her website including the photoshopped version of McCain with bloody sharks teeth. http://www.manipulator.com/

She then suggests in an interview that The Atlantic was irresponsible for hiring her given the fact that some of her art has been pretty "anti-Bush."

PDN's writeup: http://tinyurl.com/43htdv
American Digest has the photos and several links as well: http://tinyurl.com/597kbd
If it was attention she was after, I think she can count on it. She can probably count on that audit as well.

We will never forget . . .

Every time I hear the Lee Greenwood song I cry. I cried a little harder today. . .