What Does The Prayer Really Say?
W D T P R S

Even as I am composing my next WDPTRS offering for the paper version of this series I am watching, view my SlingBox, the coverage of one of my favorites among the Winter Olympic sports, Curling.   Right now the USA men are combating, stone after stone, the Norwegians.

This is very cool stuff, to be sure. Here is a shot of my itty-bitty Sony Vaio super portable which functions as my long-distance TV. I can control my DVR and satellite box back in the USA and always stay in touch with things while working here in Roma. I am using NBC’s utility for little popup alerts for the sports that are in progress. Then I can download the schedule for my satellite provider and tune into the channel that has the coverge.

The Curling coverage is fabulous. All the players are miked. Also, you can hear the sound of the sweeping around the stones as they curl down the sheet of ice. Oh the strategy! Oh the suspence! There is a great deal of shouting and hollering.  There are even some very spiffy cheerleaders for the American team.  They haven’t shown them yet, alas.  I guess the ice is "swingy".

The men are all from Minnesota, including the oldest Olympian, who is 54. The women are mostly from Minnesota, though one is from Wisconsin and one from Alaska. 

Another thing: There is great controversy about the British team: they put together a dream team.  However, they are now being challenged by the ITALIANS who didn’t have to qualify because they are the team from the host country.  HAR HAR.   

Vice President Richard Cheney <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/12/D8FNRALG0.html">accidentally shot Harry Whittington</a>, a millionaire Texan, while the two were on a quail hunting trop this past weekend. Mr. Whittington is in stable condition, and recovering well, after getting peppered with the shotgun fire.

I could be wrong, but this might well be the first time a sitting Vice President shot and wounded someone since July 11, 1801, when <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001133">Aaron Burr dueled with Alexander Hamilton</a>. Let’s hope and pray that Mr. Whittington does much better than the late lamented Mr. Hamilton.