Indianapolis / Baltimore Colts Quiz: Sorry, I thought they”d beat
Tennessee. But I”m running the quiz anyway. 1) What was the
last season in Baltimore? 2) Most rushing yards, career? 3) Most
passing yards, game? [Only Colts QB to throw for 400 yards]
4) Most receptions., career? Answers below.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 28, 1963…”I Have A Dream” speech
.I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties
and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream
deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-
evident; that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of
former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to
sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert
state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be
transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose
governor”s lips are presently dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation
where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hand
with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters
and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every
hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be
made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the
glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together.
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the
South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain
of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to
transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful
symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work
together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail
together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will
be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God”s children will be able to sing
with new meaning “My country ”tis of thee, sweet land of liberty,
of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim”s
pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So
let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let
freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of
Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village
and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able
to speed up that day when all of God”s children, black men and
white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be
able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at
last!”
Doctor Sentenced For Drugging Swimmers
Remember how in the ”70s and ”80s East German women cleaned
up in the swimming events at the summer Olympics? Back then
we all knew they were taking steroids. Some of us thought the
women were really men.
Lothar Kipke was the former chief doctor for the East German
swim team and last week he was convicted on 58 counts of
causing bodily harm but he received a 15-month suspended jail
sentence. The one-day trial was a sign of the rush to bring former
East German sports officials to trial before the statute of
limitations expires Oct. 3, the 10th anniversary of German
unification.
Kipke, 72, admitted in court that he helped design the system to
secretly give swimmers steroids in East Germany”s drive to win
medals for communism. Former athletes say coaches told them
the drugs were vitamins.
Martina Gottschalt, one of the victims, charged that the steroids
caused a deformity in her son”s foot. She said she knew of birth
defects among children of other former East German swimmers.
The court, however, refused to consider her allegation, saying it
was medically unproven and irrelevant to the charges against
Kipke.
Kipke testified he was under orders from higher authorities to
keep the girls and their parents in the dark about the steroids.
Use of performance-boosting drugs permeated East German
athletics. The former national women”s swim team coach
admitted at his trial in 1998 that he secretly gave his athletes
banned drugs.
Of course, the International Olympic Committee should strip the
girls, and other East German athletes, of their medals. But the
IOC was always a tool of the Communists [said the editor].
John Rocker…a different angle
In an article titled “Screwball Psychologizing,” columnist Charles
Krauthammer compares Major League Baseball”s decision to
have Atlanta Braves racist John Rocker get psychiatric help to
what Soviet authorities used to do with dissidents in their own
“psychiatric” hospitals.
Krauthammer says racism is not a medical problem. “We would
like to pretend it is, because we like to medicalize our social
problems…Medicalizing offers the illusion of understanding of a
problem, and ultimately curing it.”
“John Rocker is a jerk. But jerk is not a medical diagnosis
made a rule in our society that you must not speak hate out loud.”
“This, of course, is hypocrisy – we regulate just the speech, not
the feelings – but hypocrisy is what keeps society civil. You may
hate black people, you may disdain Asians, you may despise
homosexuals, but if you say what is in your heart, you are going
to be punished. That is a good thing.”
“You are not punished by government, because we believe in the
First Amendment. But you are punished by society: by universal
opprobrium, condemnation and ostracism. The heat Rocker took
for his remarks was perfectly appropriate. Until Commissioner
Bud Selig decided that this was a problem for the brain doctors.”
“Selig”s maneuver is cynicism in the service of silliness – the
silliness of a therapeutic society that reduces all social problems
to the psychological. As when the president of the United States
tells Serbs and Kosovars, Hutus and Tutsis, Chechens and
Russians, Arabs and Israelis that the root problem of ethnic
conflict is irrational prejudice and mistrust of “the other” – rather
than the struggle for power, domination, territory, wealth, pride,
vindication, etc., which has underlain wars both between and
within groups since Cain slew Abel.”
“You don”t therapize ”anger.” You don”t cure ethnic cleansing
with sensitivity training. You don”t send bigots like John Rocker
to a shrink.”
“Evil is a moral problem, not a medical or psychological one. It is
nice to pretend otherwise. But if that pretense becomes real, then
we start inhabiting a universe somewhere between ”A Clockwork
Orange” and the psychiatric prisons of the gulag.”
Again, Rocker is a dirtball. Society can take care of him. Let us.
Top 3 songs for the week of 1/18/64: #1 “There! I”ve Said It
Again” (Bobby Vinton.one of the most underrated performers
of all time) #2 “Louie Louie” (The Kingsmen) #3 “Popsicles
And Icicles” (The Murmaids). *”I Want To Hold Your Hand”
debuts at #45.and the rest is history.
Quiz Answer: 1) Colts last season in Baltimore was 1983.
2) Most rushing yards – Lydell Mitchell, 5,487.
3) Most passing yards – Johnny Unitas, 401, 9/17/67.
4) Most receptions – Raymond Berry, 631.
Happy Birthday, Cardinal O”Connor!!
And to Paul Azinger, who captured his first win since 1993 (with major
cancer surgery along the way), it couldn”t happen to a better guy!
Next Bar Chat, Wednesday…International Living
