April 15 2006

Well gang, we’ve got a big confession to make this week, and we might as well bite the bullet, as they say, and come clean.
Lately, because of the state of political affairs, a lot of our messages have been having more and more of a political focus, as opposed to the real news about the Club, our members, and what is going on in their lives.
Even baseball has taken a back seat to folks like Dick Cheney, George Bush, and (we will miss him) Tom Delay.
Members of the club are inundating Club Headquarters with e-mails like; "I lost two fingers and didn’t make the Club News." and; "I shot two of my best friends last week, and Cheney only shot one of his. What’s the big deal?"
You can see how it is.
Somehow our messages have been concentrating on political events instead of the mundane every day events associated with people who drink beer and shoot guns.
While our club is the farthest thing imaginable from a political organization, we at Club Headquarters like to think that our subtle words of descent have helped to drive "the penguin" from the political field.
You have noticed that Tom Delay walks like a penguin, haven’t you?
He’s like the penguin in Wallace and Gromet’s movie, "The wrong trousers"
Only more evil.
At any rate, the hue and cry from members like yourself, is justified. And in the future, except for obviously outrageous incidents involving our, for lack of a better phrase, leaders, we will revert to our customary reporting of events that are relevant to Club members, and let’s say, their "ordinary" activities.
This does not mean that Mr. Delay’s piece has been taken off the board. O’Contrair, he knows where all the bodies are buried, and will not be going back to roach extermination anytime soon.
There are many wonderful men, just like him, that will as they say, follow the money, and in effect, the power.
But from now on, we can relax and enjoy the simple unaffected reportage that concerns those who follow the culture of drinking beer and shooting guns.
Until we are needed again, of course.
There just may be another Tom Delay out there, don’t you think?

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary