SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 --

Confrontation …

LPR was the only camera on hand, outside the Yankee Stadium press gate, September 5 when, after the Yankees beat Seattle, fighting broke out nearby. The clash was not between Yankee and Seattle fans, but
between fans of unknown team loyalty and security personnel. NYPD officers acted quickly to contain the situation.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 --

Stop Lethal Injection Executions!

The tragedy of Terri Schiavo got renewed attention recently when GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson was asked to comment on it.

LPR recalls, among other things, that Terri Schiavo died by means of denial of nourishment (DON). LPR further recalls that the pro-death- for-Terri-Schiavo advocates assured us that DON resulted in peaceful termination of life.

Their view was persuasive.

Accordingly, LPR believes we must end the practice of execution by lethal injection. Clearly, convicted murderers facing death sentences should, instead, be done in by DON.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 --

An Alternative Minimum Tack …

The Bush Administration is seen, now, as fresh starting

With Rove, Gonzales and who knows who else* departing

Does anyone doubt Democrats would have them remain

So long as it were W who left the White House terrain?

*Excluded from this satire is White House press secretary Tony Snow who is leaving the administration September 14. Tony has been battling cancer, valiantly. LPR joins those asking the Almighty to grant Tony a speedy and complete recovery.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 --

LPR thanks …

… The Wall Street Journal for citing The Federalist Papers in exhorting the Bush Administration to stand fast against his political adversaries.

(More on this, next LPR.)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 --

Caveat Voter …

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, with insightful nod

Suggested, once, that Rudy and Hillary were like peas in a pod

Consider, too, that each is spurred on by a sense of entitlement

Consistent with democracy -- or election cause voters will quite lament?

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 --

Just wondering …

… if, somehow, the spirit of Babe Ruth is not pleased with the crumbling condition of Babe Ruth Plaza, on 161st Street, between Yankee Stadium and its successor -- and let its displeasure be known by causing the Yankees to lose to Tampa Bay after beating the Red Sox.

Babe Ruth Plaza