SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
Look at the date. Where has the first 1/3 of September gone? Well, at least the NFL season opens tonight with Minnesota against New Orleans. In case you forgot, New Orleans is the defending Super Bowl Champs. Minnesota just has Brett Favre as its claim to fame.
I read the Editor’s Note column by Bill Braksick in the Midweek on Wednesday. It was a good read. I grew up in the Bloomington–Normal area. Mr. Braksick is from Flanagan, a small town just north of Normal. I too remember Timothy P. & Rural Route 3. They were a popular band in the seventies and eighties in that part of Illinois. The national bands he named are also well known to me. Thanks for a good memory jog, Bill.
BP released a 193 page report detailing the results of its internal investigation in to the explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and well that killed 11 workers and led to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. I bet you don’t have to read the report to know BP does not take all of the blame for the accident. They claim less responsibility than they put on other companies and workers. Halliburton Co. gets plenty of blame; so does Transocean, LTD, the oil rig owner and their employees, some of whom were killed in the explosion.
This matter will be investigated by several committees in Congress with the chair of that committee getting plenty of press without having to take any blame. This will also be in Court for years to come as the various companies fight over who pays what to whom. The killed and injured workers or their families, also have a workers’ compensation case to prosecute.
Why would more than one committee or government department have to investigate this incident? Why can’t we select one investigative team everybody trusts and accept their findings?
It appears as though the Heisman Trophy organization is going to strip Reggie Bush of his Heisman Trophy. This has never happened before. There is not a “former Heisman Trophy winner” in existence. Even O. J. Simpson still has his. The NCAA has determined Reggie Bush was ineligible to play college football in his Heisman Trophy winning season of 2005. The NCAA has already sanctioned The University of Southern California, a private school in Los Angeles, CA. The Heisman Trophy organization is apparently going to accept the NCAA findings and vacate the 2005 award, leaving it vacant. Do you think Pete Carroll knew when to jump ship and get a big payday in the NFL?
I do not understand the uproar over this small church, less than fifty members, in Gainesville, Florida planning on burning the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. If this event would have occurred on Sept. 12, 2001, it would have been applauded. People would have lined up to throw a Koran on the fire. This entire exercise is symbolic. It is just a book. You cannot burn the ideas or the message, just the paper and ink.
General Petraeus and Pres. Obama have voiced opposition to this event. I wonder if they realize how many Korans they have burned or incinerated with their bombing of Iraq or Afghanistan? How many Korans have our military burned up when we blew up the person carrying it? Why is it O. K. for the military to do it but not for the regular citizen? Sounds like the President’s position on guns. The citizens cannot do it but the people in power can. The excuse it is war does not justify it. We started the war. Had we not started the war, the 9/`11 attacks would barely be remembered at all. One church wants the attacks to be remembered and we vilify them. Does not seem fair to me.
On a lighter note, an ice skating rink has been proposed for construction on top of the Hancock Building. The City of DeKalb should get on the phone and unload that boondoggle they have in storage. Maybe somebody can use a slightly used ice skating rink.
“When I was eight, I played Little League. I was on first; I stole third; I went straight across. Earlier that week, I learned that the shortest distance between two points was a direct line. I took advantage of that knowledge.
STEVEN WRIGHT
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