Monday Musings - September 25, 2023

 

1. It is the last Monday of September! Ugh. The month is almost gone. Summer is gone, Autumn has arrived and there are only 13 Mondays remaining in the year. 

Orioles Magic Number is 3

2. Even though Sunday has become football time, the Orioles magic number is down to 3 to clinch the AL East AND first place in the American League! Clinching first place assures the Orioles of a first round bye in the playoffs. There will be October baseball in Baltimore!

3. Family NFL Report. It was a difficult weekend in the NFL for most of the family teams who had some definite problems. 

    Ravens (2-1) were trampled by the Colts (2-1), 19-22

    Commanders (2-1) were buffaloed by Bills (2-1), 3-37

    Cowboys (2-1) were shot down by the Cardinals (1-2), 16-28

    Steelers (2-1) bested Raiders (1-2), 23-18 

    Dolphins (3-0) obliterated Broncos (0-3), 70-20

4. Failure to understand and respect the Constitution is becoming rampant among vocal Republicans. I read that a Republican Representative, Paul Gosar wrote about retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley, "In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung. He had one boss: President Trump . . . " (This Week with Paul Gosar) The fact is that Milley's bosses are the American people and his loyalty is to the Constitution, not to any one person. And, btw, his use of the word quisling is totally incorrect as the United States is not occupied by an enemy force. 

5. The sun is shining at this moment. I am feeling a bike ride about to happen. 

6. Today in History. Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order.

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in educational facilities was unconstitutional. Five days later, the Little Rock School Board issued a statement saying it would comply with the decision when the Supreme Court outlined the method and time frame in which desegregation should be implemented.

Russian children as young as 7 are getting military training - CNN

6 people dead, including 3 children, after a train hit an SUV, Florida sheriff says - CNN

A sample from an asteroid that may be on a collision course with Earth has landed in the US - CNN

Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians start to leave en masse for Armenia - Reuters

North Korea says cooperation with Russia 'natural' for neighbours - Reuters

US government shutdown: What is it and who would be affected? - Reuters

McCarthy Takes Final Shot at Avoiding Shutdown - The Wall Street Journal

How U.S. ATACMS Missiles Could Help Push Ukraine Back Into Crimea - The Wall Street Journal

-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL