Scoop’s Views

A good friend, DA66, although no longer a Philadelphian, though he does have the basics of Philly still in him, sent this email to me. DA66 is a great guy who has at least one really interesting hobby. It’s tied to his employer, so I won’t go into it, but he’s a new dad — for the second time — so I am trying to give him his 15 minutes of fame.

Here are the top 10 things that went through Cole’s mind after winning the World Series. Looking at the list, nothing about being in the parade today, celebrating the Phillies’ win is on the list. The parade, which was supposed to start at noon today, and go from Philadelphia’s City Hall to Citizens Bank Park, was supposed to last about 90 minutes.

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In an odd World Series game — game 5 of the series was suspended in the bottom of the sixth inning due to rain, then rained out the next day, and the following day, in just two-and-a-half innings, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays in the 104th World Series by the score of 4–3.

For the Phils, it has been a dry spell since 1980 in terms of winning the World Series, and for the city of Philadelphia, since 1983 since a championship had been won by a local team. Many locals said it was the Curse of William Penn that kept the teams from winning.

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The Republican National Trust PAC sent out an alert today that the camp of Senator Barack Hussein Obama has cranked up the mean machine, working overtime to make fellow senator John McCain look bad.

In the alert, the Republican National Trust PAC said this is “one of the most vicious assaults ever waged on the Republican party by the liberal media establishment.”

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About four to five weeks ago, all the so-called experts and financial geniuses were telling people to sell their stocks, cash in what they could, and be prepared for a stock market crash similar to that of the one in 1929.

At the same time, I held the same view that very few “financial experts” featured on television held: buy as many shares of as many stocks as you possibly can while the price-per-share is low. At the time, it was something of a buyer’s delight with prices being low.

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Sony has decided it needed to delay the release of one of the hottest and eagerly-awaited computer games of the year because Muslims may be offended by something in the background music.

According to Sony, the game LittleBigPlanet has been pulled from warehouse shelves after someone noticed one background music contained words from the Islamic holy text, the Quran.

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Obama’s secret plan if he is elected: to give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens in the United States. This is a part of his “change” package that Obama’s failed to explain to the Obama fanatics that chant and dream Obama every day and night, seemingly with no real reason for supporting him. No matter what, no one support him for any significant legislation he’s introduced in his short time in Washington, D.C. as a senator, as there is none.

In wanting to give a driver’s license to any illegal alien wanting one, Barack Hussein Obama is opening the United States, as well as its citizens, to the horrors of yet another terrorist attack. If you recall, the 9/11 plot depended on many of the terrorists having obtained driver’s licenses.

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