A bit of baseball...Graduation in England...Iran gets the bomb?

Good Morning!

As you probably know, yesterday was opening day at Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, and also RFK Stadium in Washington, with the new Senators. Vice President Blasty McBirdshot had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at RFK. There is video, check out the crowd's response! And in what can only be considered baseball's editorial response, Washington lost, 7-1. If you recall, when 'President' Bush threw out the first ball for the Red's home opener about a week ago...they got beat, too! (The Sox and the Yanks both won yesterday...the struggle continues.)



Moving on to other news, the eldest son of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer is graduating from Sandhurst Military Academy in England today. Prince Harry will graduate as a commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Army, probably commanding an armoured brigade. There is the potential that he could be sent to Iraq of Afghanistan to serve. Would that our own leaders might have seen service in uniform!! Our last president to have such a spectacular career may have been President Eisenhower...who graduated from West Point, and went on to greater fame in Europe about 60 years back.

The Queen will address the newly-commissioned officers and inspect both ranks of the senior division and the front rank of the junior division during the parade.

She will present the prestigious Sword of Honour to the best cadet and also hand out the Overseas Medal and the Queen's Medal.

He took part in final training in Cyprus

It will be the first time in 15 years that she has attended a Sovereign's Parade in the quadrangle of the college in Camberley, Surrey.

Harry has said he wants to serve on the front line.

In an interview to mark his 21st birthday, he insisted: "The last thing I said was there's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

"That may sound very patriotic, but it's true."

The prince began training to be an officer in the Army last May.

Pictures released as he leaves Sandhurst were taken in Cyprus last month during battle training.

The prince has again been the subject of tabloid headlines in the last week.

The Daily Mirror and the Sun said the 21-year-old and his friends visited the Spearmint Rhino club near Slough to celebrate the end of his army training.

And lastly this morning....unlike Iraq, it turns out the Bush Administration may actually be correct about Iran having the bomb. There was a tidbit heard yesterday on the Stephanie Miller Show that President Hafsenjani of Iran is just as crazy-religious as "president" Bush, and is also a believer in the end times and Armageddon. Be afraid.....be very afraid.

Iran announced Tuesday that its nuclear engineers had advanced to a new phase in the enrichment of uranium, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a series of the country's ruling clerics declared that the nation would now speed ahead, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council warning, to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.

"Iran has joined the nuclear countries of the world," Ahmadinejad said during a large, carefully staged and nationally televised celebration in Mashhad, which included video presentations of each step of the nuclear process that he declared Iran had mastered. "The nuclear fuel cycle at the laboratory level has been completed, and uranium with the desired enrichment for nuclear power plants was achieved."

The White House, which has charged that Iran is secretly trying to develop fuel for nuclear weapons, at first reacted mildly to the announcement, saying Iran was "moving in the wrong direction." But later in the day it sounded a more ominous tone, with the National Security Council announcing that the United States would work with the United Nations Security Council "to deal with the significant threat posed by the regime's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons."

Outside experts said that while the country appears to have passed a milestone - one it has approached before with smaller-scale enrichment of uranium - the announcement may have had less to do with an engineering feat than with carefully timed political theater intended to convince the West that the program is unstoppable.

The declaration comes at a time of intense speculation in Washington that preliminary plans are advancing to take military action against Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy fails, an idea Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld dismissed Tuesday as "fantasy land."

It's hump day....so let's make the most of it.