This sucks. Some guy shows up at a Giants game and catches Bonds' 756th ball and now has to auction it off. Matt Murphy wants to keep the ball but since it is a souvenir it gets taxed. And consider it's worth at least a half million to a million and a half, he obviously can't keep it.
So, we've got a president who keeps cutting taxes for the rich, gets rid of inheritance taxes, wants to remove taxes from investment profits, and generally let every company get off the hook tax-free for selling American jobs overseas, but some schmoe catches a historic piece of sports history and the IRS gets ready to feed on him like hungry vampires. Seriously?
Bush has a presidential statement to allow torturing and imprisonment of random brown people. He rules like a dictator, his people can't be questioned, his decisions can't be challenged in court, he kills Americans in a silly war like we're going out of style. You'd think he'd jump in and give this guy a pass this one time.
But that would require a respect for America, Americans, and our best traditions. Which he obviously does not have. His idea of tradition is letting KKK members parade around the desert hunting down Mexicans as "Minutemen" and letting modern day robber barons rip off American citizens.
Oh well.
In related baseball news, Ari Fleischer, Bush's former talking head, is now a talking head for the aluminum baseball bat cabal in the face of bans of bats on some fields. Look, I love my baseball, but I loathe aluminum bats. It is a way of making everyone a home run hitter. Which, if you aren't, you shouldn't be. He says it doesn't make the game as "fun" as it should be.
Just like a Bushite, wanting a cheat to make things look easier than they are.
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