The Freedom Bulletin

Congrats to Curt Schilling, who just won the 200th game of his career! The Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 6 to 4 at Fenway Park. Schilling pitched seven innings and allowed four runs and eight hits. He is the 104th pitcher in Major League Baseball to win 200 games. Incidentally, Curt’s son, Gehrig, celebrated his 11th birthday today. The Schilling family and all of Red Sox natoin certainly have a lot to celebrate!

Scott Peterson has a pen pal of whom, until now, the world was not aware. Richelle Nice, one of the jurors who sentenced Peterson to death, has been corresponsing with him since August 2005 and has written about 25 letters to him. Nice wrote her first letter to Peterson upon the advice of her psychiatrist and at first did not intend to sent it. Peterson wrote back, which is surprising because I’ve heard that he hasn’t been replying to many letters since his move to San Quentin in March 2005. Nice says that Peterson is extremely polite in his letters and gives Nice many compliments. He also denies killing his wife. Although she corresponds with Peterson, Nice doesn’t seem to like him much (not surprisingly since she thinks he deserves the death penalty!). This is what she says about Peterson: “When life begins to get a little uncomfortable for you, what do you do? You commit murder?’ What a sorry cop-out.” For the full story, see Court TV.

Also related to Peterson is the fact that the 12 jurors in his trial have signed a book deal. This news came out about a week ago, but, to my knowledge, has not appeared on the major news networks. A couple of stories about the book deal can be found at http://petersontrial.info.

Congratulations to Taylor Hicks, our new American Idol! Taylor deserved to win; I think Katharine picked bad songs and chose not to sing the melody. Instead, she tried to show off her voice by singing strange harmonies which often sounded more like screaming than singing. My favorite parts of the show were Taylor’s performance of his new single at the end and the “Brokenote Cowboys!” I always liked Garet (I hope I spelled his name right) and was disappointed when the judges sent the three cowboys home. They sang really well tonight, and, in my opinion, sounded better than many of the final 12. It was also great seeing Bucky and Kellie! And, I almost forgot about the Clay Aiken impersonator. The moment when he was singing and saw Clay walk onto the stage was priceless! Overall, tonight’s show was excellent, and so were the results. This time, I agree with America’s musical taste!

Unfortunately, Mitch Landrieu, Ray Nagin’s challenger, just conceded the New Orleans mayoral election. The black supremacist Nagin will remain the mayor of New Orleans and will continue his quest to make the city have a black majority. I hope he fails!

My prayers go out to Barbaro, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, who fractured his leg in today’s Preakness Stakes. The injury is considered life-threatening and will definitely end Barbaro’s spectacular racing career (he was undefeated before the Preakness). The winner of the Preakness was Bernardini., and Sweetnorthernsaint came in second.

Another unfortunate event is that, so far, Ray Nagin, who once said that he wanted New Orleans to be a “chocolate city,” is leading in the city’s mayoral election. The voting took place today, but the votes have not all been counted yet.