This is what I’m talking about!
I found this over at the Postcard Confessions blog and felt the need to share. Clearly this is a great American doing her part to support other great Americans. Everyone should care as much about our troops.
TC
Browsing Posts published on 4 May, 2006
Ah how talented our Washington Nationals are. They came out both the winner and the loser yesterday. They were winners in the game being played off the field, but still the loveable (for how much longer?) losers on the field.
If Tom Boswell is to be believed, then the new owner of the Nats is too good to be believed. After a year of tricky politics and everything short of outright bribes, Ted Lerner has finally come out on top of the dog fight to be the owner of the Nationals. He grew up loving sports in DC and even turned his first dime selling programs for the Redskins. One of the few billionaires in the country that hasn’t had his life played out in the tabloids he seems to be a bit out of place in the District. Plus, he was exactly what MLB was looking for; a rich white guy willing to buy a mediocre team.
And for that reason alone he’s going to be crucified locally. With the sinner casting the first stone being the former crackhead mayor, Marion Barry. His comments about MLB wanting to ‘rent blacks’ is low even for him. Baseball has been at the lead among professional sports in trying to get minorities involved in owning and running teams. Their attempts to get minority ownership are a far better effort than what the NFL is doing in getting blacks hired as coaches.
But two days after making the ‘token’ comments there was Barry on stage with, and shaking the hand of, Lerner promising to be a good partner for the team. That’s how life is in the Big City. Talk shit on a guy one day and then do business with him the next. But the best part is where Barry said his views had changed based on “what appears to be meaningful African American participation”. In other words, he got promised a project in his district that he could make some cash on.
This new ‘Forever Stamp’ sounds like a great idea, but I wonder if it will really work out over the long haul. Granted, the Post Office stands to rake in an ass-load of money up front when the public is rushing out to buy the ‘Forever Stamp’. The problem comes up a couple of years down the road when the Post Office is still having to pay carriers and purchase fuel, but revenues are down because the stamps being used were bought years earlier. This could cause some major problems for cash flow in the out years.
The USPS needs to get ahead of the curve somehow and find a new and unique revenue stream. The system has gotten about as lean as any Union based organization can, so they can’t really find more savings there.
