McCain’s 100+ Years in Iraq

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Western Oregon softball player Sara Tucholsky, a senior, hits her first career home run, in an important game that would would help determine whether Western Oregon or their opponent Central Washington advance the NCAA Division II Playoffs. But Tucholsky’s knee gave out between first and second base and she couldn’t continue. If her teammates helped her, she would be declared out, so her coach was preparing to put in a pinch runner at first base, giving up the run, and giving up Tucholsky’s only career home run.

Then, Tucholsky’s opponents, Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace, lifted Tucholsky up and carried her around the bases, allowing her to touch each base as they went by.

Tucholsky gets her home run. Standing ovation from the crowd.

Update (4/30/08): Photo here. Links to all stories about this event on the Central Washington University website.

Update (5/7/08): A video of Holtman and Wallace carrying Tucholsky around the bases has surfaced.

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From Glenn Greenwald, interviewed by Paul Rosenberg:

Like most right-wing leaders, the life of John McCain is chock full of dishonorable, ugly behavior. Huge numbers of female voters would be disgusted by the details of how and why he dumped his first wife, after she was in a disfiguring car accident that caused her to gain much weight and lose several inches of height, in order to marry his much younger, prettier and extremely rich mistress with whom he had been committing adultery while his first wife raised his three children. His public life is filled with corruption, deceit, lobbyist dependency, and a complete lack of principle. He holds himself out as a principled torture opponent but is, in fact, the single greatest enabler of legalizing torture in this country, from his 2005 bill which exempted the CIA from torture prohibitions to his 2006 leadership in enacting the Military Commissions Act to his opposition this year to the waterboard ban.