TBWAIN - AKA Jeff Svare's Blog

No, this list doesn't include the two I know in Wisconsin. :-) Over at Aaron Gleeman's Blog he's working on a list of the top 40 Minnesota Twins. Since it's just plays who wore a Twins uniform, and only their performance as a Twins counts, you won't see Jack Morris or Walter Johnson on the list. The list starts with Randy Bush as #40. I wonder where Harmon Killebrew , Tony Oliva , Bert Blyleven , and Jim Kaat will finish up. I'll be paying attention to his list.

With the end of the Moslem Hajj aproaching, and all the coverage given to the horrible accidents that have cost the lives of over 300 people , I'm wondering why apparently no one in the Moslem world has taken this as an opportunity to decry the terrorist attacks in Iraq that are killing hundreds of innocent people . Where's the outrage of the Moslem world against this twisting of their religious values? Some has been reported, but most of what we see in the press makes the it look like they don't care. The terrorist actions in Iraq are Moslems killing Moslems. Sunnis killing Shia. According to Islam, is this wrong? I've heard people say yes, but I've also read this in the Koran: 2.190 And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits. 2.191 And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaugh

I was watching the news tonight when a report came on that legislators in the county I live in are considering making it illegal for teens to go to a tanning salon. During the report several teenage girls spluttered on incoherently about being deprived of their "rights." This is probably more evidence that the public school system is failing to teach children, but more likely it shows that society itself has blurred the line between rights and privileges. In the Declaration of Independence it reads, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." So just what are rights, and what are privileges? As the Declaration rightly states, Rights are bestowed by God. Privileges are granted and revoked by man. It's just that simple. A driver's license is a privilege, not a right. Freedom is a right, but