Aug. 14: China, Records and the Scooter

*Warning: Made in China
I know people who have warned about products from China for years; the series of recalls are now giving conclusive proof to the theory that letting the manufacture of this country’s products out of this country for something cheaper ain’t always cheap. The recalls are expensive for the various companies and their reputations.


*Graham did it better
USA Today has an article on Hillary Clinton following
a nurse at a Nevada hospital. Other presidential
candidates are also participating in the Service
Employees International Union “Walk a Day In My Shoes”
program:

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070814/a_hillarywalk14.art.htm

None of them can top Florida’s Bob Graham, though, who
came up with one of the best strategies ever when he
ran for governor in 1978: Workdays. Graham actually
did the labor he went to see. He’s taken on both white
and blue-collar jobs, though my mother jokes that
she’s still waiting for him to mow the lawn. He did
the workdays once a month through his years in the
governor’s mansion and the United States Senate, and
during his own, brief presidential race in 2004.
Anyone running now want to get their hands dirty? I mean, literally?

*Open those records, Hillary
This is in today’s LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-clintondocs14aug14,0,1390329.story?coll=la-home-center

Rule of thumb for Hillary Clinton and all presidential
candidates: If you did it, no matter what you were
when you did it, and it affects public policy, you let
the rest of us see it. Period.

*Rest in peace, Scooter
Before there were the Florida Marlins, South Florida
radio and television carried the games of the
franchise that, sadly, still remains my community’s
favorite baseball team: The New York Yankees (I say
“sadly” because I’ve been a loyal Marlins fan since
day one.). I blush to say that I used to root for the
Yankees as a youth, but I did like their broadcasts
(both radio and TV), with Frank Messer, Bill White and
Phil Rizzuto (Much better than that obnoxious John
Sterling).
I join with baseball fans everywhere in mourning
Rizzuto, “The Scooter,” who died today at age 89. He
is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, deservedly so. He
also touched plenty of hearts in the broadcast booth.