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I could rant some more that the frikkin Chinese and Russians have their communal heads up their rectums with regards to the Iranians, but what's new? Look at the record: the Russians have been hurt more consistently by radical Islam than we have, and Chechnya remains a boil in the sphincter of Putin. But no, he'd rather dick around with screwing the Westen powers than come to grips with the fact that a nuclear Iran would pose an incredible threat to Russia. The Chinese, too, have a large and restive Muslin population that just might become emboldened by an Iran on steroids that could offer "protection."

Instead, let's consider that the Patriots just let Adam Vinatieri go to the Colts -- he of the game winning Super Bowl kicks, cheating the Raiders of their chances, and other clutch kicks too numerous to count. No No.4, no rings. Dumb.

The World Baseball Classic: a triumph. Even better because the US got knocked out by Mexico. This actually brings me back to my theme of a post-imperial US being run by Caligula Bush. The Roman Empire was pathetic in later years, easily defeated by mobs of ill-disciplined Vandals, Goths, Celts (I am sure that I am missing the actual culprits, but you get the point) and others. And here is the mighty superpower, the US, defeated in its "national game" by Korea and Mexico, and the tournament won by Japan who was playing Cuba. We are nothing but a bunch of pay-check players who have no heart: that is why we are losing our competitive edge as a nation in any number of fields of endeavor. No heart. No "wanna so bad." True there were exceptions on the team, Roger Clemens being a notable stand-out. Sure he was the losing pitcher, but had we had his heart, we would have scored the runs to defeat the pretenders. But instead, we have Derek Jeter, A-Rod and company. People that are paid more than $20 million a year to play a game ... can you get more decadent?

But then again, there's Tiger. A Thai-African-American. Now THAT'S American. But he's solo deal -- led, as are most of the better American companies, by a single genius. Warren Bufffet anyone? Compare this against GM ... the classic case of genius ruined by bean-counting, by slavish attention to the quarterly report .... That is a topic for further review: did the quarterly report destroy America?

Anyway, Tiger is out on the prowl. Sure he did not win the Bayhill or Honda, but who knows what he was doing? He may have been out there to "try" things, to work into the place he needs to be to make a run at the Masters. We will see.