good talk

I was talking to a friend of mine today, "Bob," who I know from the gym and I asked him how old he was, I thought maybe "68" and he said "81." Bob has a Harley and rides regularly and only retired 5 years ago. If you keep yourself up you'll last a long time, just ask Bob. Bob has been married for 47 years but has no children, maybe that's part of it. Bob can put up a pretty fair amount of weight too, I'm all-around impressed. For a couple seasons John Rocker of the Atlanta Braves was one of the best relief pitchers in baseball. But then Rocker gave an interview in January of 2000 in which he made politically incorrect statements and everybody hounded this guy after that and John Rocker was out of the Major Leagues after the 2003 season. One of the things he said was "How did some of these people get in the Country?" Now this was prior to 9-11. Bobby Kennedy, who I think would have been President, was assassinated in the spring of 1968 by a Moslem Arab who didn't like Kennedy's support for Israel. Good Sense would dictate that some of these people are very dangerous people and their numbers should be limited in the United States. Contrary to popular beliefs today not everybody in the World is entitled to live in the United States. Instead of limiting the numbers of Arab Moslems in the U.S. about any of them who wanted to come here were still allowed. All 19 of the Hijackers on 9-11 were Arab Moslems who had had Legal Status in the United States at one time or the other, all had been Legal Residents of the United States. And 9-11 was as big a suprise to the FBI and the CIA as it was to anybody else, they thought, gee, look at that. The FBI spent 50 million dollars and 17 years looking for the Unibomber and the only way Ted was caught was when his own brother turned him in. According to the late Peter Maas, the author of "Killer Spy," the CIA agents would often work while they were drunk. Could have fooled me. None of Rocker's statements bothered me, Rocker was a public figure being less than diplomatic, but you can't even talk anymore? If you express unpopular opinions people will hound you like pit bulls until you have no blood left in you. On Jay Leno's show he had people swinging a bat at a likeness of John Rocker. Every time Rocker pitched large crowds would shout horrible things at him. In a baseball sense Rocker broke under the strain and couldn't pitch well anymore. John Rocker was a country boy who would hunt even 40 days in a row and his opinions were common to people like himself, millions of Americans looked favorably on his stated opinions. You can't even talk anymore? All the many people in the media who jumped on Rocker and hounded him out of baseball are all Bullies, Cowards and lowborn Swine. They have no Shame.