Tom's Blog

      As we inch closer to spring, the weather is more unpredictable as we could get more snow later this week, its time to think about some other stuff.

     What a finish at Daytona as Matt Kenseth won the 50th running of the Daytona 500.  I was listening to a sports talk show yesterday about having all NASCAR races all the same distance.  The problem is not all race tracks are equal in size, so that would be unfair to the longer tracks.  I like the different lengths of the tracks and the different distances of the races.

     Well, I see that you get to host the remaining candidates for President the next couple of weeks.  I would rather get the shorter time with the candidates than the constant stories about the candidates for months on end in New Hampshire and the problems with traffic.  I live across from one of the places where the candidates had town meetings or rallies and some of the news media had their remote trucks parked in front to make people think what was going on.

     Spring training has begun for the pitchers and catchers and soon the remaining players will be going to camp.  So far, we have Carlos Beltran saying that the Mets are the team to beat in the NL East.  Well, as history has proven over the last 12-15 years, never count out the Atlanta Braves.  They always have a good team and always manage to compete for top honors in the NL East. 

     And finally, there is an interesting thing going on in the Republican Party.  On the one side the moderates that are running the party are trying to quiet the conservatives...especially talk radio by complaining that they are too harsh about Sen. McCain.  Well, if the candidate got legislation on the floor of congress with the help of the liberals and ignoring the people who elected him...wouldn't you be critical of him too?  Its bad enough that the liberals want to bring back the "Faireness Doctrine" which would further silence free speech, now we have the McCain campaign whinning about the treatment their candidate is getting on talk radio.  Just wait until the mass media turns on McCain when either Sen. Clinton of Sen. Obama get the nomination.