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is a form of lower case greed that you never hear the churches preaching against i guess the new mantra that trumps gordon gekko is that greed is only good if someone else has more than you do the unwritten word in these examples is the second r that is responsibility responsibility is like the flip side of a hit record when i was a teen recording companies produced a hit on one side with an often obscure recording by the same artist on the backside with the exception of elvis records no one would ever play the backside and it was virtually relegated to oblivion every real right has a concomitant responsibility with it we all have the right to life except our unborn the most endangered species in our society but even that right is not absolute my college ethics book listed three exceptions to the commandment thou shalt not kill self defense is perfectly acceptable when one s life is endangered this self defense principle is behind the logic of capital punishment and a just war now the latter two are debatable and not written in stone the one kind of life that is totally protected by the first amendment is the innocent s right to life innocent life represents the pure image and likeness of god and must be respected as such with regard to the right to food shelter a job and health care the responsibility for all these relies primarily on each individual parents and those with dependents also have the primary responsibility of those in their care these so called rights while all subset of the right to life should never be the responsibility of the federal government the so called nanny state mother i d rather do it myself if individuals are unable through no fault of their own to provide these basic necessities of life than they are subjects for charitable institutions if someone is destitute or just down on his luck because of accidental occurrences his welfare can be incumbent on private groups or citizens to tend to his needs but for the federal government to assume this as part of its mission in life is wrong i say this because all government handouts have strings long strings that can tether a person to them for the rest of his life this is a certain forward step toward a life of tyranny the third r is religion now most people say that religion doesn t belong in anything to do with rights unless it is civil rights and priests and ministers are solicited to march in the forefront of civil rights protests all over the country but when it comes to abortion euthanasia of embryonic stem cell research they are reminded of the extra constitution threat of the separation of church and state which effectively moves many to the sidelines for fear of losing their tax exempt status many religious groups erroneously believe health care is a right and expensive right that someone else should pay for now religious leaders have every right even a sacred duty to urge us from their pulpits to help the poor give to the needy and the like but they have no right to support a government confiscation of personal wealth and redistribute to others without any form of accountability this is breach of the 7 th commandment thou shalt not steal for catholics and an abuse of their preaching powers what about the president s continual use of the class envy card that has contributed a virtual class war betwen the various segments of the population the church has forgotten vii it is this very participation with big government that has caused these religious leaders to lose sight of their real mission on earth and become nothing more than loud carnival barkers for a secular government that would just as likely relegate all religious fervor to the ash heap of history just as teachers today seem to have ignored the original three r s our religious and political leaders have virtually ignored or confused the true meaning of the new three r s it is time that their proper relationship be restored so america can stay on its proper course posted in uncategorized tags 7th commandment ash heap of history capital punishment death penalty church and stae class envy elvis records entitlement gordon gekko fire in a crowded theater flip side god s law nanny state orwell rights the unborn baseball and some mona lisa moments november 11 2010 6 comments while i was growing up i remember reading about da vinci s mona lisa and how enigmatic her smile was i have been to the louvre and i got as close to her portrait as i could and quite frankly her smile does not do very much for me really other than her mysterious smile what is the big deal an enigmatic smile first of all she is not that pretty and i think the surmises from art aficionados about what she was thinking says to me that they had too much time on their hands no sport inspires true art more than baseball baseball has long been considered a sport for american scribes and poets and the list of writers who have written on baseball reads like an american literary who s who luminaries such as ring lardner damon runyan william carlos williams marianne moore donald hall philip roth and don delillo had a deep affection and love of the game that energized their work less well known however is the love affair between visual artists and baseball american illustrator norman rockwell is probably the most famous baseball loving american artist baseball was the subject of his 1st cover in 1916 his fascination for the game of baseball like his own work is wrought with imagination honesty and the uncanny sense of baseball players and fans to relate to a game in such an endearing and special way rockwell loved combining his love for baseball with his artistic style he went on to paint 13 covers on baseball out of the over 300 covers he published for the saturday evening post i find that a popular american portraitist norman rockwell prompted more thought in his renditions than two davincis got fans to think i find my opinion especially true when it comes to his work with baseball subjects as an old brooklyn dodger fan from the 1950s i was extremely interested in his painting of the three umpires sometimes called the bottom of the sixth i had a print of it hanging in the den of my first home many years ago my knowledge of the game told me that i had found a flaw not in his strokes but in the logic of his baseball knowledge a flaw in rock s logic if you look very closely you will see three umpires the lead umpire with his hand out is the legendary beans reardon identifiable by his outsid e chest protector the rival american league did it that way while reardon s national league preferred the inside chest protector reardon is flanked by larry goetz and lou jorda logic tells me that it is just starting to rain as does the fact that the pirate players are standing in the field waiting to see what the umpires decide my focus is on the coaches the painting s details are readily available the elderly pirate is billy meyer he seems upset or distressed by the joyous enthusiasm of the dodger coach clyde sukeforth the man who would later be fired for telling manager charley dressen that ralph branca was ready the game was apparently played in 1948 one can make out the outfielders in the background they are johnny hopp dixie walker and ralph kiner the actual score 1 0 in favor of the visitors is probably apocryphal since i could not find anything close to the score the dodgers did play seven shorten games but none that i could find with pittsburgh the dodgers only won five of the 11 games played in brooklyn none came close to this circumstance if the rain had just starting why is the dodger coach smiling it is an official game and if the top half of the inning is rained out brooklyn still loses most explanations i have seen miss this point i have seen the original in cooperstown a small note underneath the portrait which is surprisingly small says that the dodger coach saw a break in the clouds and he was optimistic that the game would continue balderdash i say there is no indication from anyone else that this is the case i can only surmise that sukeforth was exhibiting a panglossian glee that had little bearing on the reality of their situation there are at least two other cases of an enigmatic interpretation of baseball art recently a friend andy rochman sent me a copy of a 1954 saturday evening post cover that pictured stan the man musial i had originally assumed that the artist was norman rockwell an e mail suggestion and a little research uncovered that actually it was painted by a nebraska artist john falter in falter s portrait stan was signing a baseball with his right hand now every baseball fan knows the man was a lefty all the way falter must have gotten it wrong is the first reaction i have written about stan and his free autographed baseballs after mass but the one he gave me had already been signed see https bbprof wordpress com 2010 09 26 the man in the w on the right i have gotten him to autograph at least a dozen pictures but i do not remember which hand he used i have been present when he autographed other items and i never looked in attempting to solve this mystery i surmised that the nuns in stan s grade school probably forced him to write with his right hand some research showed that musial did attend the polish school at his st mary s church in donora but had gone mainly to public schools through his 12 years of formal education so quite possible his signing with his right hand was started by polish nuns or maybe not my wife is a natural lefty and the nuns tried to do that to her but her inner spirit rebelled and it didn t take funny thing when she played soft ball she hit right handed because her dad was a righty and didn t know how to teach her any other way well the mystery was solved when someone sent rochman a photo of stan in the act of signing with his right hand mystery solved the sender also affirmed my guess from an interview he had read about stan years ago there is another apparent mystery out there of a similar nature many years ago i bought a very large print of a sep cover with brooks robinson signed by both robinson and rock well not man robinson was signing a baseball with his left hand did only three things with his left hand everyone one knows brooks robinson arguably the best 3 rd baseman that ever took a ground ball was a righty all the way whoa didn t rockwell know anything about baseball the dealer told me that he had asked him that and robinson told him that he only did three things with his left hand he wrote ate and i can only guess what the third thing was had had these baseball artists deliberately sought out subjects that would create an aura of doubt was he attempting to ensure that people would be talking about their art for years to come my educated guess is that they painted popular subjects who interested him without knowing that they had a peculiarity only the swiftest of baseball fans would leap upon as for the brooklyn episode i think rockwell s art trumped his knowledge of the logic of the game had he made the top half of the inning a big score for pittsburgh then it would have made perfect sense and even have included a little bit of artistic drama the way he did it was at best ambiguous like mona lisa i guess and at worst wrong was lisa del giocondo da vinci s model with child or telling herself a silly joke like i care i guess that deep in the heart of every artist s soul there lurks a desire to have a mona lisa moment even those who paint baseball posted in uncategorized tags beans reardon brooks robinson donora john falter larry goetz mona lisa norman rockwell ralph kiner saturday evening post stan musial armageddon was yesterday today we have a november 5 2010 3 comments in the first leg the girl with dragon tattoo of the late stieg larsson s trilogy the main character lisbeth salander wore a tee shirt that said armageddon was yesterday today we have a serious problem i thought it would be a perfect quote for the 2010 election i had lived the last few months in severe trepidation i knew that the future of our country and even that of my family could hang in the balance while i am not certain last night was an armageddon but it certainly did shake the rafters of the democratic party left too many democrats standing to me the important part of the saying is the second part the ball is now in the republicans court and they better do something more than dribble all over the place also they should not take the results as a vindication of their past policies obama s mantra of the past few years the failed policies of the past rang true to the degree that they were almost indistinguishable from those that he was offering bush s tax cuts were not the problem in fact along with alito and roberts they were the highlights of his eight years in office no bush and some many of his neo con advisers had adopted the big spending policies of the left in order to curry favor with the voters whose voters i ask certainly not people like me their past history should have told them that a me too kind of approach to big government and profligate spending would only insure a ballot box rejection bush s republicans had forgotten their base and it took a new movement the spirit of 76 from the tea party goers to rejuvenate their base the spirit of 76 makes its point while there were disappointments in nevada delaware and maybe alaska the basic ideas of the tea party people won and won big the tea party movement was unlike any that i can remember in political history it provided the human juice and energy that pulsated through the veins of the electorate last night unlike most other t hi rd party movements their leaders attempted to work within the framework of the two party systems had they not done so the results of last night would have been remarkably different that idea reminded me of the former tax payer party now the constitution party i was a delegate to their national convention in st louis in 1999 howard philips and my friend joseph sobran were the original candidates that year i think joe dropped out after just a few weeks he was more an intellect than a politician what disturbed me was how that they seemed more hostile toward regular republicans than they were toward democrats tea party people learned from his mistake even sobran s post election columns centered more on the inadequacies of president bush i thought that a foolish thing to do since the democratic agenda was driving us over a cultural and economic cliff at warp speeds what i didn t realize was that they planned to destroy the republican party and resurrect a new party out of the ashes they was a dumb idea and was doomed to failure the 2010 tea partiers got it right my big personal disappointment was that ed martin a fellow holy cross alumnus did not enjoy a resounding victory at the end of the evening it seems that suddenly his narrow margin turned into a surprising 4 500 vote lead for russ carnahan still 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