NFL Quiz [1972-74]: 1) Between ”72 and ”74, name the 3
different Eagles players who led the NFC in receptions? 2)
What Green Bay Packers” kicker led the NFC in scoring in ”72
and ”74? 3) What L.A. Rams” RB led the NFC in rushing in ”74?
4) What Denver Broncos” RB led the AFC in rushing in ”74?
Answers below.
President Bush in Shanghai
[Excerpts from his speech Saturday at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation summit in Shanghai. As our president keeps
reminding us, this is a long struggle. Posting these speeches is
my small way of reminding folks what it is we are up against and
what is at stake.]
We meet today with recent memories of great evil – yet great
hope for this region and its future. The attacks of September 11th
took place in my country, but they were really an attack on all
civilized countries. The roll of the dead and the missing includes
citizens from over 80 nations – 96 Russians, 23 Australians, at
least 30 Chinese, 24 Japanese, 20 Malaysians, 16 Mexicans, 21
Indonesians.
This was truly a crime against humanity. And it stands
condemned by humanity.
The American people are grateful for the world”s sympathy and
support following September 11th. We truly are. We won”t
forget the American Stars and Stripes flying in solidarity from
every fire truck in Montreal, Canada; or children kneeling in
silent prayer outside the embassy in Seoul; baseball players in
Japan observing moments of silence; a sign handwritten in
English at a candlelight vigil in Beijing that read, “Freedom and
justice will not be stopped.”
I can”t tell you how much I appreciate the phone calls from
leaders from around the world. We”re deeply grateful to
countries – including all the APEC countries – that have now
joined in a great coalition against terror.
In our world, there is no isolation from evil. Our enemies are
murderers with global reach. They seek weapons to kill on a
global scale. Every nation now must oppose this enemy, or be,
in turn, its target. Those who hate all civilization and culture and
progress, those who embrace death to cause the death of the
innocent, cannot be ignored, cannot be appeased. They must be
fought. This is my firm resolve, and the firm resolve of my
nation. This is the urgent task of our time.
The most visible part of our response is taking place in
Afghanistan. The Taliban regime has allied itself with
murderers. I gave Taliban leaders a choice: turn over the
terrorists, or face your ruin. They chose unwisely.
Yet, even as we oppose the Taliban, we seek friendship with the
Afghan people. Our military actions are accompanied by food
drops. We have substantially increased aid to Afghanistan. My
government supports international efforts to bring help and
stability and peace to that unfortunate nation.
There”s frustration about the delivery of food and medicine and
help in Afghanistan. I share that frustration. The guilty ones are
the Taliban. They disrupt; they steal; they prevent supplies of
food from delivery. They starve their people, and that is another
reason they must go.
Our war on terror has many fronts, and military action is only a
part of our plan. This campaign will take strong diplomacy and
intelligence, diligent law enforcement and financial cooperation.
It will span every continent and require varied contributions from
many nations.
Tomorrow, APEC leaders will pledge to work together to deny
the terrorists any sanctuary, any funding, any material or moral
support. Together, we will, patiently and diligently, pursue the
terrorists from place to place until justice is done.
This conflict is a fight to save the civilized world, and values
common to the West, to Asia, to Islam. Throughout the world,
people of strong faith, of all faiths, condemn the murder of the
innocent. Throughout the world, people value their families –
and nowhere do civilized people rejoice in the murder of children
or the creation of orphans. By their cruelty, the terrorists have
chosen to live on the hunted margin of mankind. By their hatred,
they have divorced themselves from the values that define
civilization, itself.
The stakes of this fight for all nations are high – our lives, our
way of life, and our economic future. By attacking two great
economic symbols, the terrorists tried to shatter confidence in the
world economic system. But they failed.
The terrorists hoped world markets would collapse. But markets
have proven their resiliency and fundamental strength. And this
week in these halls, we return to the steady work of building the
market-based economic system that has brought more prosperity
more quickly to more people than at any time in human history.
We know a future of greater trade and growth and human dignity
is possible – and we will build it.
When nations allow their citizens to exercise conscience and
creativity, the result is economic and social progress. When
nations accept the rules of the modern world, they discover the
benefits of the modern world.
.I”m here in Shanghai to assure our friends – and to inform our
foes – that the progress of trade and freedom will continue. The
ties of culture and commerce will grow stronger. Economic
development will grow broader.
The Asia Pacific region provides the world with a model and a
choice: Choose openness, trade, and tolerance, and you will find
prosperity, liberty and knowledge. Choose isolation, envy and
resentment, and you will find poverty, stagnation and ignorance.
Our nations have chosen – freedom over fear.
.All of our citizens need basic education. The greatest resource
of any nation is the creative energies of its people. They must
gain the skills demanded by a new economic world. Only when
literacy and learning are widespread will the benefits of the
global economy be widely shared.
.Our governments must continue to fight official corruption in
every form. Good economies can be suffocated by bureaucrats
that serve themselves and not the public. Corrupt officials can
destroy people”s faith in fairness and in progress.
All nations must also realize that, in the long run, the habits of
economic freedom will create expectations of greater democracy.
All people – of every religious or ethnic group – have a right to
participate in their nation”s political life. No government should
use our war against terrorism as an excuse to persecute
minorities within their borders. Ethnic minorities must know
that their rights will be safeguarded – that their churches,
temples, and mosques belong to them. We must respect
legitimate political aspirations, and, at the same time, oppose all
who spread terror in the name of politics or religion.
Our times present many challenges. Yet I”m confident about our
shared future. I know that our region and our world can trade in
freedom. I know we can bring health and education and
prosperity to our people. And I know we can defeat terror, so
our children and grandchildren can live in peace and security.
In the struggle of freedom against fear, the outcome is certain.
We speak for the common hopes of mankind – to live as we
choose, to follow our faith, to build better lives for all who
follow us. These hopes have carried us a long way, bringing
progress and prosperity to millions. And they carry us forward
to even greater achievement.
Now is the time to act boldly, to build and defend an age of
liberty.
—
Stuff
–A London zookeeper was crushed to death by an elephant on
Saturday, the third British zookeeper to suffer this fate in less
than 2 years (3 different zoos).
–Bar Chat scoops the New York Times. Yes, and it”s not the
first time this has happened. Back on 9/26 in this space I wrote
of the death of Joseph Slowinski, herpetologist, in Burma
(Myanmar). Well, this Saturday, the New York Times finally
ran the obituary, with the headline, “J.B. Slowinski, 38, an
Expert on Venomous Snake Species, is Dead.” But I do need to
now note some of the Times” quotes.
“I can”t remember when I got so interested in snakes,” Dr.
Slowinski told the San Francisco Chronicle last year. “But I
know I was only 4 when I ran around catching little snakes.”
What a strange kid. No wonder he is dead. He should have been
playing with a ball or something at that age.
And the Times also reported on Slowinski”s special fascination
with Myanmar. “He recalled one evening when, exhausted after
a day of examining specimens brought to him by villagers, he
had nothing more in mind than relaxing with a beer.” [Maybe
Slowinski wasn”t that strange after all.]
” ”But before I can,” he wrote, ”I hear loud chicken-squawking
coming from directly below my hut. Checking their bamboo
hutch, I see a kukri snake has crawled in to eat some eggs. I bag
it. What a great country Myanmar is – at least, if you”re a
herpetologist.”” [On second thought, yes, he was real strange.]
–Fresno State lost to Boise State in college football this
weekend, thus ruining it for those of us who wanted to see these
guys in the running for the NCAA title. Boise State? We now
eagerly await Oklahoma-Nebraska.
–Joe Paterno finally tied Bear Bryant as Penn State pulled off an
upset of Northwestern. Florida State”s Bobby Bowden was
granted a new contract at $2 million a season, joining Florida”s
Steve Spurrier and Oklahoma”s Bob Stoops in that category.
Absolutely absurd. It”s friggin” college.
–Jack Nicklaus joined Arnold Palmer as the only former
Masters” champion to become a member of Augusta, something
else I find hard to believe.
–Harry K. had an interesting story for those of you who travel
and use the in-room hotel safes. He used one recently and it
locked up on him. Many of them are operated by batteries and
when the battery runs out, as was the case with Harry, the safe
has to be drilled open to knock the lock out, not a good thing
when you are in a rush to catch a plane.
Top 3 songs for the week of 10/18/69: #1 “I Can”t Get Next To
You” (The Temptations) #2 “Hot Fun In The Summertime” (Sly
& The Family Stone) #3 “Sugar, Sugar” (The Archies)
NFL Quiz Answers: 1) Eagles players that led the league in
receptions – ”72: Harold Jackson, 62; ”73: Harold Carmichael,
67; ”74: Charles Young, 63. 2) Chester Marcol led the NFC in
scoring in ”72 and ”74. 3) Lawrence McCutcheon had 1,109
yards rushing in ”74 for the Rams. 4) Otis Armstrong had 1,407
yards rushing in ”74 for the Broncos.
Next Bar Chat, Wednesday. The Carpenters…and some
Yankees history.
