200 wins for Schilling

Congrats to Curt Schilling, who just won the 200th game of his career! The Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6 to 4 at Fenway Park. Schilling pitched seven innings and allowed four runs and eight hits. He is the 104th pitcher in Major League Baseball to win 200 games. Incidentally, Curt's son, Gehrig, celebrated his 11th birthday today. The Schilling family and all of Red Sox natoin certainly have a lot to celebrate!

Peterson's pen pal

Scott Peterson has a pen pal of whom, until now, the world was not aware. Richelle Nice, one of the jurors who sentenced Peterson to death, has been corresponsing with him since August 2005 and has written about 25 letters to him. Nice wrote her first letter to Peterson upon the advice of her psychiatrist and at first did not intend to sent it. Peterson wrote back, which is surprising because I've heard that he hasn't been replying to many letters since his move to San Quentin in March 2005. Nice says that Peterson is extremely polite in his letters and gives Nice many compliments. He also denies killing his wife. Although she corresponds with Peterson, Nice doesn't seem to like him much (not surprisingly since she thinks he deserves the death penalty!). This is what she says about Peterson: "When life begins to get a little uncomfortable for you, what do you do? You commit murder?' What a sorry cop-out." For the full story, see Court TV.

Also related to Peterson is the fact that the 12 jurors in his trial have signed a book deal. This news came out about a week ago, but, to my knowledge, has not appeared on the major news networks. A couple of stories about the book deal can be found at http://petersontrial.info.

Congrats Taylor!

Congratulations to Taylor Hicks, our new American Idol! Taylor deserved to win; I think Katharine picked bad songs and chose not to sing the melody. Instead, she tried to show off her voice by singing strange harmonies which often sounded more like screaming than singing. My favorite parts of the show were Taylor's performance of his new single at the end and the "Brokenote Cowboys!" I always liked Garet (I hope I spelled his name right) and was disappointed when the judges sent the three cowboys home. They sang really well tonight, and, in my opinion, sounded better than many of the final 12. It was also great seeing Bucky and Kellie! And, I almost forgot about the Clay Aiken impersonator. The moment when he was singing and saw Clay walk onto the stage was priceless! Overall, tonight's show was excellent, and so were the results. This time, I agree with America's musical taste!

Nagin wins (boo!)

Unfortunately, Mitch Landrieu, Ray Nagin's challenger, just conceded the New Orleans mayoral election. The black supremacist Nagin will remain the mayor of New Orleans and will continue his quest to make the city have a black majority. I hope he fails!

Get well, Barbaro

My prayers go out to Barbaro, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, who fractured his leg in today's Preakness Stakes. The injury is considered life-threatening and will definitely end Barbaro's spectacular racing career (he was undefeated before the Preakness). The winner of the Preakness was Bernardini., and Sweetnorthernsaint came in second.

Another unfortunate event is that, so far, Ray Nagin, who once said that he wanted New Orleans to be a "chocolate city," is leading in the city's mayoral election. The voting took place today, but the votes have not all been counted yet.

Sen. Inhofe is a hero

Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, has one of the best ideas I have heard in a long time. He sponsors an amendment, approved by the Senate today, that would make English the official language of the United States of America! If this amendment passes, it would be one of the best things that has happened in America in years. Unfortunately, President Bush has been waffling about whether or not he supports making English the official language. For his true patriotism and refusal to submit to social pressure to be politically correct, Senator Inhofe is the Imperial Bulletin's hero of the week.

Another great thing that happened in the Senate today was a decision to multiply indecency fees by ten. Broadcasting inappropriate, perverse material on television and the radio is a serious offense that ought to be punished severely - the sick individuals who choose to create and broadcase such material are lucky to face only fines. In my opinion, they should be jailed, and, in many cases, worse than that!

Shame on you, FDA

Members of the FDA have, indeed, recommended that the evil cervical cancer vaccine be approved. Shame on them!

Additionally, Reade Seligmann, one of the Duke lacross players who is falsely accused of rape, appeared in court today, and some jerks yelled threats at him. Most of the threats were too profane for Fox News to say, and therefore too profane for me to put on this blog, but the threats included comments that Seligmann is a rapist, a "snake," and a "dead man walking."

An attack on innocence

Good job, Senator Arlen Specter! Although unfortunately he says that he is "totally opposed" to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, he does believe that the amendment deserves to be debated in the Senate. Today, ater Specter, a Republican, had a shouting match with Democrat Russ Feingold, a Senate committee approved the amendment, sending it to the Senate for debate. At one point, Specter told Feingold, "I don't need to be lectured by you." Later, Specter bade Feingold "good riddance" as the latter stormed out.

Another event in the news that is just as despicable as gay marriage is the development of a vaccine for cervical cancer. The FDA will probably approve this abomination, and debate is raging on whether or not to have all young girls receive this injection!!

I object to the vaccine on two levels:

• First, it violates the rights of children. Parents will be the ones to decide whether or not the children receive the injections. This is completely irrational, as the children, not the parents, will receive the shots, and therefore should be the ones to decide whether or not the shots are given. Vaccines are slightly physically painful, but their true pain is a result of the dread that victims experience, a dread that overshadows the life of any rational person for the entire time the person knows that they will be given a shot in the future. It is said that shots only hurt for a second, but this is a blatant fallacy: shots inflict psychological pain for a lifetime. If advocates of the evil plan to vaccinate 9- and 11-year old girls succeed, the shots will hurt these girls for at least 9 or 11 years (and probably more because the vaccine only lasts for 4 years and therefore will be re-administered)!
• Second, I object to the vaccine because its implementation carries the assumption that all females will become sexually active. Cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease, and some people want children to be vaccinated for it! This assumption is extraordinarily offensive to celibate individuals like myself. Obviously, there is at least one girl in the world (myself) who will be celibate forever, and the existence of just one celibate individual is enough to completely invalidate the presumption upon which the cervical canver vaccination plan is based. It is irrelevant how many sexual women the vaccine benefits; the vaccine violates the rights of all celibates and asexuals of the world by invalidating their existence, and therefore is immoral and unjustified. The idea of thinking of beautiful, innocent little girls as people who will become sexual is twisted. I will never willingly receive a cervical cancer vaccine, and if the members of the FDA have any brains at all, they will vote this vaccine down!

In older news, the Senate did a good job by approving the construction of a heavy-duty fence along the Mexican border, but did a bad job by approving a plan for U.S. citizenship for some illegal immigrants. The U.S. needs to decrease its population, and deporting people who can't speak English and have no loyalty to America is one of the best, easiest ways to accomplish this goal.

Finally, some entertainment commentary: Congratulations to Aras for winning "Survivor" on Sunday - I liked him better than Danielle or Terry. Monday's finale of "Prison Break" was excellent - one of my favorite parts was Haywire's escape on the bike. Abruzzi was especially nasty, and I almost felt bad for T-Bag. And, last but not least, I predict that Taylor will win "American Idol."

Check back for more rants; I am in a ranty mood, as some of my favorite issues, such as immigration and gay marriage, have been in the news a lot lately!

Moussaoui, Duke case, and "Idol" picks

Sorry for not posting for a while. Here's a rundown of some recent, monumental events in the news:

Like many people, I was shocked by Chirs Daughtry's eviction from "American Idol." Now that he's gone, I predict that Taylor Hicks will take the top prize. Taylor, with his gray hair and jerky dance moves, has been my favorite since Kellie left. I'm going to guess that Elliott Yamin will be the next to go, and Katharine MacPhee will finish as runner-up.

In other news, a second round of DNA tests in the Duke rape case have shown no match with any of the players on the Duke lacrosse team. This news supports my theory that the accuser was simply making her story up.

Finally, Zacharias Moussaoui, who was recently sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 9/11 attacks, was transported to the federal supermax prison on Florence, Colorado today. He will spend 23 hours each day in a soundproof cell, with one hour of exercise each day. Moussaoui is hardly the first notorious criminal to reside in the supermax: the prison is home to shoe bomber Richard Reid, unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, American terrorist Eric Rudolph, and notorious gang leader Luis Felipe. The supermax was also home to Timothy McVeigh, who became friends with Kaczynski, Yousef, and Felipe while the four of them lived in a especially high-security part of the prison known as "bombers' row."

To learn some fascinating facts about life in the supermax, go to Court TV.

Derby Day

Congratulations to Barbaro, who won the 132nd Kentucky Derby today! My pick was AP Warrior, a son of AP Indy and a grandson of Seattle Slew on his father's side and a cousin of Real Quiet on his mother's side. My choice for second place was Steppenwolfer, a beautiful gray colt who is also related to Seattle Slew. Even though my favorites didn't win, it was still a great race, as it is every year. For more great info, go to http://kentuckyderby.com.