With the summer baseball season over, our focus has been on getting JD ready for college.  His move in day is next Thursday and we have spent the last couple evenings purchasing some clothing and other items he will need for dorm life.

Tomorrow is his 19th birthday and he got his present a couple days early.  He has been wanting a bike to ride around campus so we took him to the bike store and he picked out a new mountain bike to take with him. 

With not much baseball to talk about until spring, I'll have a lot of time to talk politics so expect to see more of that in the future.  We'll kick things off with two of the dumbest quacks in U.S. government. 

Time for an update on Harry Reid and his imaginary friend who’s telling him Mitt Romney paid no income taxes for a decade. The charge is so transparently bogus that even the White House press corps tried to pin Obama spokesman Jay Carney down on whether Obama repudiates it. But Carney dodged every question and kept telling them to talk to Reid. Or you could just take Nancy Pelosi’s word for it. She said, and I quote: “Harry Reid made a statement that is true. Somebody told him it is a fact.” So to Nancy Pelosi, if Reid claims that an anonymous phone caller made an unsubstantiated claim and said it was true, that makes it a fact. I think I’m starting to understand the level of research that went into the Obamacare bill.  You'll recall that Nancy said prior to passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that we would need to "pass it to see what is in it".  This is the kind of leadership we have on the left.  This women is a nut.