"As for me on the 1st of hill"

I took the famous "I have a dream" from Martin Luther King's Address and translated it into Japanese. Then I took THAT and translated it back to English.

The original

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”

And the translated version.

"As for me on the 1st of hill whose Georgia is red, it possesses the dream where the son of the owner of the son of the slave before and the slave before can sit down together in the table of same trade union."

Sweet!!
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If you are looking outside today remember - it's only 30 days until pitchers and catchers report for sprint training!!!

But yea - we are no longer in a Positive Arctic Oscillation and are in a normal winter pattern. Looking at the temperature anomaly map below you can see a lot of the cold arctic air is starting to slip south from its Alaskan resting area.  The blue area is a colder then normal air mass and as you know these sort of things seem to run north west to east.  sad.  

This is the current situation and these are for the 17th to the 24th period.

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Seems the GOP is complaining about the Supreme Court and how they created Super Pacs and how corporations can now give millions and millions of dollars to candidates.  Wait a minute.  Didn't they create the Super Pacs to beat Obama??  And now they are complaining because it's not fair??

This is going to get REALLY REALLY ugly when the real election starts up.  Obama has a few Super Pacs all lined up in defense of his title.  

Steve Colbert has created his own legal Super Pac and his ad's are now running in South Carolina.  It might be funny but it's also sad.  You see you can say anything you want in a political ad.  You don't even have to be close to honest.  Political ads are protected by the 1st Amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

You can not sell a round loaf of bread and call it square, that would be illegal. But you can run ads like this with no problems on TV.  He is trying to show how stupid this whole "corporations are people" thing that the Supreme Court passed

http://youtu.be/Aix7tQMdJ3s




Then there is the whole Columbus Journal, the "news"paper of Columbus.  Did you know there were more then 6 cases of vandalism at the Columbus Recall office?  Nails in the driveway (I found one in my tire)  locks being super glued, and so on.  While the Cbus police are out giving parking tickets downtown buildings are being vandalized, windows being busted at Hydro Street and not only are the police ignoring the problem the newspaper does not even report the problems.  Yet, they are in the police reports for all to see.

Columbus had one the the best Recall offices in Wisconsin, it was the talk of the effort but only one tiny mention in the newspaper.   sigh.    I like Paul but you would think when real news happens, something truly historical in our own town, even if it was politically on the left, it would be reported.

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ANYWAY - back to fun things.  I guess I'll put my bike away for a little while and watch more TV.

We watched Alcatraz last night.  I really liked the show.  The premise is that in 1963 all of the inmates of Alkatraz were transferred . . . . but were they???  All of a sudden they are coming back to the here and now and a sprightly young blond, Hurley from LOST and the dude from Jurassic Park are trying to find them one at a time before they kill again.  

We also watched the movie "Bridsmaids" and I thought it was really good.  There were some parts that DJ could hardly breath from laughing and I had tears in my eyes!!

http://youtu.be/gj8H__MvM54



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Tonight at Hydro Street is Drinking Game City Council Night.   Watched the City Council on there TV and play City Council Bingo.   They have collected hundreds of phrases and buzz words the CC like to say and made bingo cards.   It'll be a hoot.
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Packers - I have to think that the reason the Packers loss was a combination of the week off and the death in the family.  Troy Aikman confirmed this yesterday when he said that he went into the Packers Locker room Saturday and it was very quiet and subdued.  Most of the Packers had never been to a funeral before.  It was a two week ordeal and a horrible death.   Kid falls through the ice on a river and it took a week to find the body under the ice and then the funeral days before the big game.   WOW!

And you wonder why the offense was off???     

Anyway - I hope you all made it safe to work today.

Rod

Cheers
Rod