756

Last night Barry Bonds smacked his 756th home run, eclipsing Hank Aaron's 33 year old record. He made his historic shot at home in San Fransisco t the wild cheers of his hometown crowd. Willy Mays was on hand to help him celebrate and Hank Aaron sent his congratulations via video. Of course all this comes with a giant (*) due to the steroid taint, the theme of this year's pro athlete accomplishments. The Tour du France was besmirched by the doping scandal, Michael Vick's dog fighting controversy, NBA referees beating on the games-- an on! None the less when I listened to the story of Bond's 421 foot home run this morning on NPR goose bumps crawled up my arms and tears came to my eyes. A significant accomplishment for an older athlete, and history was made. Meanwhile A-Rod hits his 500th, the youngest player to ever do so, and Glavin brought down his 300th victory, at the expense of the Cubs.

Our national pastime taking our minds off the bigger news stories-- the Minnesota Bridge Disaster, the Utah Mine Collapse, and of course, the war. As the death toll continues to mount and the insurgents continue to wage their civil war, our president is determined to stay the course, pour more fuel on the fire and sacrifice more and more of our youth to this stupid and lost cause. The reason they are waging this war is because we are there. The longer we stay, the more they will fight us. The oppressed, the dominated, the occupied will continue to gain strength and resolve and eventually rid themselves of us-- of US! And the death toll will be in the 100s of thousands of Iraqi's and 10's of thousands of our soldiers, to what end? the Bush legacy. Failed, disastrous and destructive presidency. the worst president ever, setting the new standard for BAD. Such a legacy! And when we elect a democrat in 2008, likely our first woman president with our first African American vice president, and they will have his mess to clean up. There may be few Republicans still standing, so that all the blame will then fall on the Democrats. History will not be kind to George W Bush. One can only hope the economy and our environment will survive him. Just think of all that has happened on his watch....