After the U.S. rebounded from a 10-6 deficit to rout the Europeans, 8 1/2 - 3 1/2, on the final day to win the Ryder Cup, the only subject mentioned was the emotional celebration on the 17th hole after Leonard made what proved to be the winning putt.
Yes, the players went a little overboard in their rush across the green while Jose Maria Olazabel had a 25-foot putt that would have kept the Cup up for grabs. But the constant whining is growing tiresome, and the Europeans seem to have very short-term memories.
Enter American Davis Love III, who decided he'd heard enough of the complaining from across the pond. He mentioned the 1993 Ryder Cup at The Belfry in England and "people poking umbrellas through the fence trying to trip us."
"And how long," Love said, "have they been calling our wives 'flight attendants' and 'blond bimbos'?"
At Valderrama in Spain in 1997, Love said, people "were downright ugly to us...coughing and yelling and cheering when we missed a putt."
In response to European captain Mark James' claim that many of his players would not participate in the next matches in the U.S., Love said "it's sad that they're whining so much. I guess when you get pounded like that, you've got to find some reason for it."
Most of the American players were upset all week with the Europeans' slow play, which Love insisted was intentional. If you watched any of the Cup, you'd agree.
"I'll bet you a million dollars their strategy was slow play, because they knew it frustrated us," Love said. "Somebody's got to have told them, 'Put it into 'Four Corners. It will bother these guys.'...Nobody heard Mark O'Meara complain about [Padraig] Harrington taking 10 minutes to get off a shot at 18.
Love added that the Americans accepted the apologies of Colin Montgomerie before Valderrama, when 'Monty' chastized Brad Faxon for his impending divorce and Scott Hoch's missed putt when he lost the 1989 Masters. Now, however, the Europeans aren't as forgiving. Maybe they'd like to wear diapers for the next Ryder Cup.
Cheryl Burnham, a clerk at a juvenile facility in Los Angeles, got 30 dys in jail for ringing up a $120,000 tab for her employer with calls to a psychic hotline. She pleaded no contest to felony grand theft for placing 2,500 calls on county telephones to the psychic hotline in the Dominican Republic.
Guess her psychic didn't see that one coming.
If you believe Democrats in Congress have become the centrist party, check out what the future of the party is proposing.
The Young Democrats, at their national convention in Little Rock, adopted policies on their platform supporting same-sex marriages, adoption rights for gay couples and domestic partnership laws that provide equal legal rights to gay couples in long-term relationships (how do you prove that?).
At least they are being bolder, as the 1997 platform included such extreme comments such as "Domestic violence poses a serious threat to the American family; the Young Democrats of America supports all efforts to educate communities on ways to reduce the incidence of domestic violence." And here I was thinking they support domestic violence. I'm glad they put that on their platform, then.
How about this grand statement?: "We the Young Democrats of America believe in the values of Democracy and support efforts to ensure fair and free elections." Now if that's not taking a stand on the issues, I don't know what is.
Here's one platform issue from 1997 that was not followed in 1998 regarding their heroic president: "The Young Democrats of America believe ethics in campaigning and ethics in government are absolute principles to which candidates and public officials must continually adhere to. We support an effort to clearly define acceptable and unacceptable conduct. We believe those who run for public office as well as those who are office holders must be held accountable to the public for ethical acts."
Maybe that should be changed to: "must be held accountable unless they lie about sex before a grand jury in a sexual harrassment case."
There is good news, though, as the elitist Northern liberals are ostracizing their Southern cohorts for an apparent affection for guns.
"In Southern states with weaker gun regulations, people can go down with a pickup truck or a van and they bring them right back to New York. Those are the guns that are being used in crimes."
That ridiculously ignorant statement was brought to you by Gregory Atkins, the New York delegate on the platform committee.
To those anti-Christians and scientists who believe no religion should be mentioned in schools, especially anything regarding creationism, I quote famed physicist/astronomer Stephen Hawking:
"We can explain how the universe was created, but to explain why is to know the mind of God."
Not sure enough that his reason to grant clemency to 12 Puerto Rican terrorists was questionable, President Clinton invoked executive privilege Thursday and refused to turn over documents that might give U.S. citizens any little reason to accept such a troublesome move.
"The president has a moral obligation to the American people to explain why he let terrorists out of prison," Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said. "By claiming executive privilege he is, in essence, telling the American people that it's none of their business."
If the president does not want to turn over these documents, I can only conclude that he really was using these terrorists to boost Hillary's New York Senate campaign, and now that it has backfired he can only stonewall and deny, deny, deny, as if the American people trust any move he makes.
Every other time Clinton has invoked executive privelege it has been to hide something that would be potentially damaging to the administration: three times in 1996 -- when Congress demanded documents related to the White House travel office firings, a joint FBI-Drug Enforcement Agency memo to Clinton on drug enforcement, and foreign-policy documents on the administration's Haiti policy. The White House also asserted executive privilege in litigation and independent counsel investigations -- most notably when Clinton sought to shield his deliberations with aides and in-house counsels over Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Lewinsky investigation.
Vice President Al Gore, attempting to politicize the church shooting in Fort Worth, Texas which killed seven people and wounded seven others, actually asked, "How can you allow guns in churches?"
Al, buddy, I don't think anyone "allowed" him to carry those guns in, and sure couldn't have stopped the maniac if they tried. It's time to quit blaming guns on the killings, and focus on why there are so many disturbed people that are responsible for such attrocities.