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On Second Thought for Sept. 7, 2015

9/4/2015

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A lighthearted look at news of the day:

Last week, President Obama became the first president to visit the Arctic. Well, if you don’t count Bill Clinton when he would go home during the impeachment trial.

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Before visiting Alaska, Obama officially renamed Mt. McKinley to Mt. Denali. That officially answers the question of when it’s no longer too soon to dishonor an assassinated president.

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Wait another 50 years and some Republican president will retaliate by renaming JFK Airport back to Idlewild.

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To Obama’s credit, he resisted the urge to change the name of Seward, another Alaskan spot named for a Republican — William H. Seward, Lincoln’s secretary of state — to Kerry.

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It appears the only thing deflated in the NFL right now is Commissioner Roger Goodell.

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A judge ruled the NFL was wrong to suspend quarterback Tom Brady for allegedly deflating the footballs he used. That’s just going to encourage other quarterbacks to do the same. Maybe this is the “giant sucking sound” Ross Perot tried to warn us about 20 years ago.

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Actually, Perot was warning about jobs heading south, kind of like what will happen if the Oakland Raiders move back to Los Angeles.

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We’ve learned a lot of things from Hillary Clinton’s emails. One of them is that, if she becomes president, she will need to hire a 12-year-old to help her use electronic devices.

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At one point, Hillary emailed a State Department staffer to ask when “Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Wife” were next going to air on television. My guess is somewhere in the Clinton home sits a VCR blinking 12:00.

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In a surprise announcement, British-based Sky Trax has ranked North Korean airliner Air Koryo as the worst in the world. You risk getting thrown off the plane if you crumple of newspaper photo of Kim Jong Un, flight attendants speak only Korean, and, on some flights, condensation drops onto passengers. On the bright side, in-flight entertainment does not include recordings of Dennis Rodman singing Happy Birthday to the nation’s leader.

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