Waterloo Wild Card — 6.18.09

Today is the 169th day of 2009. There are 196 days left in the year. On this day in history: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte met his Waterloo as British and Prussian troops defeated the French in Belgium . In 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger . In 1984, Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show host , was shot to death outside his home by two white supremacists. Paul McCartney is 67. In the news this evening: A poll shows that only 6% of Jewish Israelis view the Obama administration as pro-Israel here . And the Waterloo Wild Card is in play …