Bob Herbert....

....a big-time, big government liberal attends a Brookings Institute meeting with a bunch of fellow liberals and is surprised "at the lack of grousing and finger-pointing"!

Are you trying to be funny Bob? Did it not occur to him that was because the attendees were all liberals and agreed with the liberal solutions [i.e tax & spend even more] discussed at the meeting.

Here is the link:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/opinion/06herbert.html?ref=todayspaper

Snow Report....

....at 5PM EST. It's stopped for a few hours now. Got the cars out- went to WAWA and got milk and newspapers. I think the final tally hear was 18-20 inches. Here are some more pics.

Snow Report.....

........at 9AM on Saturday, Feb. 6th. Accumulation here west of Philly is 14-16 inches so far. Shoveled the back walk and expect plow to do the driveway by noon.

Colts Will .....

....win the Super Bowl on Sunday by 28 points assuming Dwight Freeney plays like he normally does [he has an injured ankle].

Renaissance Man Is.....

....what you can call me. Yesterday, the mailbox had two solicitations in it. One was from NRA Chicks Who Go Topless and the other was from, WRTI, the local jazz/ classical music station.

I think that means I am a Renaissance Man! Can you guess which mailer I will send back?

Tom Brookshier.....

....was a heck of guy. For someone with fame and fortune, he was a normal, down to earth person. I remember meeting him one time in the mid -1980's. I was working for an insurance company and he stopped into our department to complete an insurance purchase. Everyone remembered him as an ex-Eagle player and a high-profile TV analyst for NFL games.He had played at the University of Colorado, played for the Eagles for 7-8 years then settled down to make his life in the Philly area.

Anyway, Brookie came into our department, sat down in the cube of someone who was at lunch and pulled out a checkbook just like an average person. The difference [between him and Joe Average] was he stroked a check for something like $300,000 to purchase a single premium deferred annuity [according to my memory]. Bloggers' note - for point of reference, not long before that I purchased a nice, twin home in Philly with three bedrooms and 2 and 1/2 baths for $52,500! Is this a great country or what?

But back to my main point : May God bless & keep Tom Brookshier and my condolences to his family and friends.

Conference Title Game Predictions.......

......the Colts will eke out a win vs. a tough Jets defense [Ryan family bloodline is incredible]. But I see rookie QB, Mark Sanchez, making enough mistakes and Peyton Manning and the Colts will outscore the Jets in a low-scoring game.

......something about the Saints is fraudulent to me. Who'd they beat this year? So I am picking the Vikings to beat the Aints with the Minnesota defense getting a few big turnovers to help Favre and his offense win the game.

• New Orleans played four playoff teams in the regular season. They beat three [Philly, Jets and Patriots] and lost to one[Dallas].
• Minnesota played five games in the regular season vs. playoff teams. They won four [two vs.Green Bay, one each vs. Bengals and Ravens]. They lost one to Arizona.
  
  Super Bowl will be Vikings vs. Colts.

Grant Desme Retires From Baseball....

.......to play in the really big leagues. Neat story about a pretty good and maybe promising minor league baseball player who decided to quit baseball to enter the seminary and become a priest.

If you read the story, it mentions another baseball player, Al Travers, who also went on to be a priest [FYI - Aloysius "Buzzy" Travers was my religion teacher in 1967-68 when I was a sophmore in high schoo].

At one time, Buzzy Travers held the all-time record for most runs given up by a pitcher in one game. He gave up about 26 runs [I am going from memory here ] in his only major league appearaance in like 1918. It was complicated- Father Travers was one of a group of college players who were paid to play in a major league game in Philadelphia vs. The A's. They were replacement players for the Detroit Tigers who had gone on strike to protest the suspension of their teammate, Ty Cobb.

I do not make this stuff up! [Click on the post title above to read the ESPN story].

Did 21 Million People Leave the Work force ....

......or did the Associated Press simply make an error in its report this week. That report claimed the folllowing figure for the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed. I calculated the total work force using the AP numbers:

• In January 2009, unemployment rate was 7.7% and there were 13, 000,000 unemployed. That equates to a total workforce pool of 168 million [13 million / 7.7% x 100% = 168 million].
  
• In December 2009, the unemployment rate was 10.0% and there were 14,700,000 unemployed. That equates to a total workforce of 147 million [14.7 million / 10% x 100% = 147 million].
  
• Note the difference in total workforce is 168 million vs. 147 million. Did we lose 21 million people? Or did the AP simply mis-report the numbers?

Here is the link to the AP story. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010808897_apusobamasyearbythenumbers.html

Pundits Tend To.....

......get it backwards. Today, liberal pundit Eugene Robinson claimed Republicans are winning because they are better at framing the issues to the voters. In his mind, the pols [and pundits of course] have all the good ideas aka winning issues and the two parties compete with each other to see who can best "frame the issues" to attract voters and get the most votes.

IMO, Robinson has it exactly backwards. The times are changing. Today, it is the little people aka voters who have the big bold ideas.And lately the Republicans have "borrowed" the little people's ideas and used them to run winning campaigns.

In actuality, it was that CNBC reporter, Rick Santelli, who started all this Tea Party / small government stuff and he should get way more credit for it!

Playoff Predictions

• Cardinals beat New Orleans.
• Minnesota beats Dallas.
• San Diego squeaks by the NY Jets.
• Indy beats Baltimore.

Agricola.....

......That’s Latin for farmer according to my [then] eighty-five year old father. So what you say?

Well, is it important to fill your life with good memories? Especially the childhood variety. Here’s the story. My 15 year-old nephew [he is now 22 year-old college senior] is cramming for a Latin exam and he is stumped by a few of the 100 words assigned by his teacher for an upcoming quiz. I am able, with the help of an enormous dictionary, to help him out with all but one and that is the word agricola. I guess it has something to do with agriculture (am I a genius or what?). I next suggest he call Pop-Pop who is a retired math and science teacher, lifelong voracious reader, and trivia whiz. Instead, I make the call. It goes like this. What’s agricola mean in Latin? The unhesitating response is farmer. I tell him to call his grandson with that information. He does.

Fast forward a couple days and I ask the nephew how the quiz went. He says the quiz had 20 words and one was agricola. And he was the only one in the class who got that right. I suggest he will never forget the meaning for agricola and who he got it from.

Is this a first.......

........when an NFL team could not get to its game so a high school team plays in its place? Because the New York Football Petunias aka Giants obviously did not show up to play against the Vikings today. The score so far is Vikes 44 and the Petunias zero! Heh. Maybe the Giants' plan is to go for a higher slot in this year's college draft. If so, that plan is working!

Body of Lies......

.........watched this 2008 movie last night. It was about a CIA agent stationed in the Middle East including Iraq, Jordan, Syria.

Even though the movie, in many ways, tried to blame "the evil Americans" for the Mideast strife [big surprise there from Hollywood liberals] but I came away with this thought.

Al Quaeda and its terrorists are like cockroaches or rats who have already infested many places in Europe and are desperate to do the same in America. There is only one answer and that is is to change our immigration and visa policies to keep Muslims out with damn, few exceptions. At least until the murderous members of Al Quaeda have been wiped off the face of the earth.

Blue Jays Are Easier ........

......to catch on film when it's freezing outside? I had been trying to get a good picture of the Blue Jay in the back yard for a while. This morning, it landed on a bush just outside the kitchen window. Go figure?

One Last......

......Christmas picture.

Separated at Birth......

......James Gandolfini and a drugged up drunk driver, Jesse Maiden,who killed two people in a crash New Years morning on I-95 in Philly.

New Traditions Are Rare........

.....don't you agree? But the NHL Winter Classic is a gem. I am not a hockey fan but I watched the whole game today when the Flyers played the Boston Bruins in an OUTDOOR game at Fenway Park. And I watched the whole game last year and the year before.

Here is what hockey great Bobby Orr had to say about an outdoor game........."You'd leave home in the morning and your parents would say, 'Be home before dark,' and we'd come home if we were cold or hungry," said Orr, who skated to centre ice before Friday's game with [Bobby]Clarke as honorary captains. "That's how we learned to play the game. We had lots of fun, just our friends. We might go to the school rink or any place that we could put a puck down or any [surface] that was cleaned off, we would play."

How many other celebratory, lasting traditions have humans created in the last 10 or 20 years? Not many IMHO. Most of our traditions are over 100 years old.It's nice to see a new tradition begin! Just think, it will only be about 95 years old in the year 2100.

Thought For The End Of the Year.....

........you know I am not the nicest guy in the world. Hell, I am not even the 3 billionth nicest guy in the world but at this time of year, I do wish that everyone in this world had a warm, loving home and enough food to eat!

Happy New Year to all!

This Blog Sucks......

....so I resolve to kill it or fix it in 2010!

And I have almost reached my required number of annual posts which is 176. Did you notice how I filled in 12 posts pretty cheesily by using that old newspaper trick of re-running my best columns [posts]of the year. Yeah, I thought you would.

BTW, probation sucks too- it's the only reason I do this dumb blog. What a stupid f-ing judge I got!

Blogs & Tip Jars....

.....is it usual and customary for a blogger to acknowledge their receipt of a gift made to them via their blog's tipjar or pay pal button?

It seems to me, a blogger should send a thank-you email but recently I made a couple nice tips to blogs I read daily and got nada in return. Maybe some bloggers get too big for their britches.

Best of December 2009

Liberal brains are really different. They can't do basic arithmetic nor logic and have trouble giving a simple yes or no answer to a question.

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/12/liberal-brains.html

Best of November 2009

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/11/stephanie-does-halloween.html

Best of October 2009

Alas, all that training gone to waste...

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/10/rioting-refresher-course.html

Best of September 2009

I think this is the post where I coined the term "wreckonomics" to describe the economic knowledge and polices of President Obama.

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/09/you-know-economy-sucks.html

Best of August 2009

I think I am pretty good at slicing and dicing the numbers on financial statements and estimating the revs an expenses for many industries.

IMO, there is no reason a business that owns a premier domain name like philly.com can not be highy profitable in this day of the internet. The folks who have been runing these so-called businesses are just plain clueless!

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/08/wwwphillycom.html

Best of July 2009

College costs way too much!
http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/07/51000-per-year.html

Best of June 2009

Read the whole thing. Hoosier Daddy is a smart guy.

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/06/hoosier-daddy-explains-health-care.html

Best of May 2009

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-mothers-day-to.html

Best of April 2009

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/04/wednesday-april-29-2009-dr.html

Best of March 2009

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/03/happy-anniversary-to-me.html

Best of February 2009

http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/02/bite-me-mr-president-i-am-exhausted-too.html

Best of January 2009

Eagles....!
http://theringleader.blogspot.com/2009/01/eagles.html

Did you have a nickname?

Let's see of the old crowd I saw last night here are some of the nicknames we had: Beast of the East,Beastly, Craz, Mad Russian, Sneaky Nazi, Saul St. Snap out, Pete from Alaska,Punchy, Yako, Captain Pineapple, Nitro [his partner in crime Glycerine did not show up], Lynchie, Schucky.

Merry Christmas!

I have more than I ever even dreamed of having. I was at a party last night and saw about ten of the guys from my grade school and high school days. We were borderline juvenile delinquents but most of us have had successful and happy lives. We all agreed that for a bunch of row-house denizens from Philadelphia, we have more than we ever dreamed of! For that I am thankful and somewhat in awe. Merry Christmas!

More Wisdom.....

....from a wiseass.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Three Stages of Truth....

....I don't know where I read this but they ring true and are perhaps topical as to some of the controversial topics of the day and no, I am not referring to Christmas and the Baby Jesus and you are damn straight, there is a Santa Claus. So I give you the Three Stages of Truth to ponder with your Christmas hangover:
1- Ridicule, 2- Opposition and 3- Self Evident. [I bet these are what old whathsname experienced way back when he said the earth was round!]

9PM in Philly - We are doomed .....

.....because it is so hot, it is white hot! Everything looks like winter snow.

530PM in Philly- Even Poor Old SantaClaus.....

......is about to experience spontaneous combustion! Oh, President Obama won't you do something to save Christmas?!

5 PM in Philly - When It Is So Hot......

......that the human body actually melts, does it look like these pictures?

1 PM in Philly - Is The Earth .....

.....moving closer to the Sun? My God, I am walking around dressed only in my underwear and it is still so damn hot. Plus there is only 4-5 inches of snow on the ground.

Someone must do something and fast about this global warming problem! Pleasssssseeeee oh so wise President Obama - get together with our superior human beings at the U.N. and fix this asap! I can't take this heat and I don't want to die!

You Really Can't Make This Stuff Up...........

...............in a few minutes, President Obama will make some big announcement that they reached a global warming junk science agreement in Copenhagen.

Meanwhile, when he gets back to DC tomorrow, there may be 1-2 feet of snow on the ground. Do Dems and Liberals realize how dumb this looks to the average American? [I think they do but they are so arrogant, they don't care].

Liberal Brains.....

.......must work very differently than my brain.

A liberal I know said "after they lower the cost of healthcare, I hope they get to work to lower the cost of college next"!

The speaker is a very nice person but is obviously clueless as to how the world and economics works. She might as well have asked that "they lower the cost of Springsteen concert tickets". As if they could.

My Genius Nephew ....can be funny too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klQ55wrylSg

Army Navy Game.....

.....is one of America's greatest traditions!

I went the 2001 game and it was a great event. George Bush attended and did the traditional thing where the Prez sits on Army's sideline for one half and Navy's sideline for the other half.

Yahoo.......

.......should have been named Yaho! Everytime I mis-type my yahoo logon ID as ......myusername@yaho.com, that idea comes to mind. Yaho would have been a much better domain name than Yahoo! Hell they could have said it was named after the women Tiger Woods was screwing. Heh.

My College Picks.......

..........and no Doofus I am not referring to my choice for the best schools of higher education. I am referring to my college football picks that will win me some serious moolah this weekend. Don't blame me if you don't have the balls to make a bet and my picks win. Here are my picks:

• Take West Virginia with the points vs. Rutgers.
• Take Fresno State with the points vs. Illinois.
• Take Florida and give points vs. Alabama. Tim Whathisname is a great QB and the Gators will win by 14 points.
• Upset of the week: Take Pittsburgh with the ponts vs. Cincinnati.

And don't blame me if you make a bet and lose! That is why it is called gambling. Heh.

UPDATE 12/6/09: I would have won 3 out of 4 of these picks. If I was in Vegas, my bets would have been $500 each on WVU and Pittsburgh, $200 each on Fresno St and Florida. Florida was my only loser and they lost big so there was no unnecessary suspense. Bottom line is I would have won almost $1,000 smackers. Stick with me- I don't bet often but tend to do OK when I do.

I will give my college bowl picks in a week or so.

How Long Before.......

......we see lawsuits against the Global Warming zealots who have, at a minimum, exagerrated the threat of global warming? Their dire forecasts led nations to enact stringent & costly energy rules and regulations. A skilled litigator can argue these onerous rules and regulations caused some businesses to decline as well as the states and towns where the impacted businesses were located.

It is not a stretch to imagine a bankrupt state like Michigan suing Al Gore and others for ruining that state's economy due to faulty [malicious psuedo-science?] theories.

Jeez, I have convinced myself this argument is a winning one! I wish I were a hungry lawyer. Heh.

Funniest Thing I Read.......

.......in quite a while. I LOL when I read the last line below [in red]. This is a quote from a Wall Street Journal article about how the Federal Communications Commission may intervene to prop up newspapers via taxpayer subsidies! WSJ story quote starts here:

"While cautioning that changes in the news business must be much better understood before any policy changes are made, Mr. Leibowitz [FCC Commissioner]said: "We should be able to take action if necessary to preserve the news that is vital to democracy." Mr. Leibowitz's wife, Ruth Marcus, is a columnist for the Washington Post, a fact he disclosed during the meeting."

Is that hilarious or what? The guy will be using my money [taxpayer] to help save his far-left liberal wife's job!

Global Warming ......

...is a scam just like I have always thought. I wonder how many other scams or frauds I can think of right now:

1. Indian Casinos.
2. Non-profit foundations and groups that are actually just special interest lobbies like Planned Parenthood or The Heritage Foundation.
3. Minority set-asides for government contracts.
4. People who claim they shoot under 80 in golf except pros of course.
5. Fat people who say they are just big-boned.
6. Those ads you see where a charity asks you to donate your old car to them [fyi - the salvage company pockets about 80-90% of the car's fair market value].
7. Any of those miracle "AB machines".
8. Green jobs or green energy.....sure they work if Uncle Sam subsidizes them with big bucks and forever.
9. Colleges that let your kid take a major in something that is absolutely 100% worthless as to paying job & career [ Colleges should be required to provide parents with a written estimate of the future earnings for every major].
10. The NFL. On any given Sunday, you could not pay me enough to watch 75% of its teams play. Why? Because 75% of the NFL teams suck!

It's Not What You Know......

....it's really who you know. Below is a disgraceful example.

Somewhere I read or heard from the MSM that some Wall Street firms had gotten allotments of the swine flu vaccine. Since there is a shortage of the vaccine, that "prioritization" did not sound fair or appropriate to me. Then I am talking to a friend who is a member of a construction workers union in the Philly area and he tells me he and his family got their flu shots at his union hall along with many other members [his local has at least 800-1,000 members or maybe even more than 1,000]. Again this "prioritization" does not sound right to me.

Especially after I heard my niece took her baby [13 months old] for her shots and the pediatrician did not have any swine flu vaccine! Can anyone tell me WTF is going on in this country?

33 ....

.... more posts to go this year. My probation officer requires me to post 176 blog posts here every year and this is post #143 so I have to do 33 more! Piece of cake! My probation is over in 2019 I think.

Crazytown.....

.......is how a niece of mine thought she looked in this website photo from her NYC charter school. She is a great kid and the school has to be thrilled to have teachers like her.

Way to go Chrissy [she is the teacher on the right]!

Am I Nuts......

....or what? Should I get bothered when so many people use email to communicate instead of just picking up the phone? Their emails, to me, seem to be an attempt to hide or they are scared to actually speak person to person. And yes, I know, I may be fast approaching fossildumb [sic] but wtf !

The FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List...........

.............as revised yesterday by President Obama. WARNING - if you see any of these hardened criminals, be very careful, they may give you a piece of their mind!

1. Tea Party protesters
2. CIA agents
3. Surgeons - especially the greedy ones who remove tonsils or saw off legs
4. Insurance companies - are there any out there who don't need Nancy Pelosi to keep them honest?
5. Policemen - especially the ones in college towns where there is very little crime
6. Seniors who express concern about Medicare cuts.
7. All Energy companies unless they are GREEN ENERGY AND FINANCIALLY VIABLE ONLY BECAUSE THEY GET GINORMOUS GOVT SUBSIDIES.
8. Banks
9. Wall Street
10. People who believe Obama was awake during Rev. Wright's sermons.

Hurricane Katrina......

...........wreaked havoc, death and devastation on Mississippi and Lousiiana about 4 years and 3 months ago. So with billions and billions of dollars, the govt began re-building New Orleans and the surrounding area. Since it's been amost 1,600 days since Hurricane Katrina, I assume the rebuilding by the state and fed and local govts is 99% or 100% done. Am I right?

I recommend the govt should now take its energy, tools, big ideas, grand plans and hard mofo govt employees and go to work to reform our health care system. Where could they go wrong?

[Note to self : I must go and visit the "New" New Orleans and see how all that hard work and taxpayer money has made it the gem of the South!] It has, hasn't it??

Hahahahahahaha........

The DC Beltway must make you so frigging dumb. Here is what I just read. It was written by one of the longtime, far left Beltway pundits:

"There's a good case that health-care reform will relieve corporate America of burdensome costs and boost job mobility, and that a new green economy is the wave of the future, but convincing people that these complex pieces of legislation are the most relevant way to address their problems is a tough sell, and Obama hasn't really tried, or at least it seems that way. What Democrats miss most is Obama's clarion call, the visionary rhetoric that cut through all the noise of the campaign and signaled a new day in American politics."

Idiotor's comment: As if the cost of health care will just disappear and it won't be passed back to employers as a new, ginormous tax!

Stephanie Does Halloween.....

.......as The Jolly Green Giant...heh heh....I guess, Stephanie, it's fairly common to be confused and uninformed when you spent four years in the Bronx and now you live in Queens and work in Brooklyn. It's like a triple NYC whammy.

In Game Six.......

...the Phils will win 12-5. I see Game Seven as Phils victory of 10-3. That will total 30 runs for the Fightin Phils in the last three games of the Series! [I do not make this stuff up- it will happen].

Furthermore, it may be decades before the Yankers win a World Series title in their new stadium. No one, not even Trooper York, will have a large enough reservoir of tears to shed during these long, dry years of Yanker failure. As a result, the Yanker fans will give up baseball and become Arena Football and Soccer fans. Heh.

Go Phils!

Party Invitation...

.....to my house on Thursday to watch the Phils win World Series Game 7! All are welcome. And here is a bonus link to a Philly Inquirer story about a fight between a Phils and Yankees fan. In typical Philadelphia fashion, both guys got arrested for drunk driving, unpaid traffic tickets and some drugs and paraphenalia. Haha! What a great city we have! Here is the link to the story:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20091103_Yankees_fan__allegedly_punched__gets_arrested.html

I Predict A......

....sweep for the non-Democrats in today's elections [but it is possible, the Dems will commit enough voter fraud to win the New Jersey election].

My prediction is based on one thing- people everywhere are pissed and anxious due to incompetent elected officials and growing govt control into our everyday's lives. Let's see how the elections turn out.

I wish I were in Vegas so.....

...I could place a bet on the Phils to win the World Series. Since they trail 3-2 and the last two games are at Yankee Stadium, I bet the odds for the Phils to win it all again are pretty long so I would make some money when they do win! And, as you can tell, I feel confident they will win - they just need to bring their hitting shoes! Go Phils!

Chase Utley....

....will break Reggie Jackson's record of five home runs in one World Series. As I type this, Utley has four dingers already. He will tie Jackson's record tonight before Game Five is over and Utley will break the record in Game Six or Seven.

Here is a pic from last night's Game Four which I saw in person! Go Phils. [FYI Derek Jeter must be dumb cause this pic has No.2 ? I thought the goal in sports was to be No. 1! Heh].

Swisher Gets Benched........

.........with that name and the way he is playing, I think he will be trolling the streets around 42nd Street. Plus the ancient washed-up Jorge Posada is riding the pine tonight!

I will again predict a big Phils victory and use the same score I predicted last night. The Fighting Phils will win 10-3! Go Phils

Congressman Shows Common Sense.....

.......and a good sense of humor when this happened: Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today released the following statement regarding his vote against H.Res.784, a bill “honoring the 2560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius and recognizing his invaluable contributions to philosophy and social and political thought.” "He who spends time passing trivial legislation may find himself out of time to read healthcare bill," said Flake.

Hattip to Instapundit!

Game One......

......prediction is 10-3 Phils. I am psyched, psycho and pumped up so my prediction is agressive tonight! Go Phils!

[Idiotor's note : There is no idiotor but I noticed Jill Biden, an alleged Phillies fan did not wear any Phillies gear. Oh well, she is probably just another liberal phony like her dumb husband who I refer to as 'IBM' aka Irish Big Mouth Joe Biden.]

How Screwed Up ....

....is Jon Corzine when he has spent $120 Million of his own money on his own politcial campaigns. Corzine is a bigtime far left liberal so he wants more and more taxpayer money to be spent on social programs!

I wonder how many poor kids Corzine could have saved with that $120 Million? Most rich liberals are phony, two-faced fucks IMHO. Here is the detail from the MSM:


The Star-Ledger's Josh Margolin, Claire Heinin, and Claire Heininger report:
Corzine donated or loaned his general election campaign $22.6 million of its $24.1 million... The Democrat has now dedicated more than $120 million of his own money in his campaigns. He spent a combined $100 million on successful bids for U.S. Senate in 2000 and governor in 2005.Corzine's old firm isn't called 'Government Sachs' for nothing, apparently.

Granny Smith Was....

...an answer in today's crossword. I felt my head was getting a bit mushy so I decided to start doing a crossword everyday to exercise my brain. I began in January and it has definitely helped my memory and retention. I am getting good at completing the Philly Inquirer's daily crossword puzzle.....but not so good yet at the Sunday crossword.

I do not make this stuff up...

Go Phils!

Ivy League Grads.....

........have caused most of the country's problems. I think it is fair to say that. Let's start a backlash against Ivy League grads so they can't get hired or buy a house or rent an apartment or get a loan. Kick every one of them out of Congress and the White House. Like the old joke about lawyers, what do you call 1,000 Ivy Leaguers at the bottom of the ocean? A start!

Competitive Option....

.....is the new term for the public option the Dems want to foist upon the Americans who pay the bills by pulling the oars day in and day out.

I say give us a competitive option and get rid of the current Congress- every stinking one of them. Then conduct a lottery and pick their replacements by randomly using the phone book if one still exists [shades of William Buckley I know but I borrow all of my good ideas from someone else].

The Two American League Teams....

.....look old to me compared to the Phils. Jeez, I look at Abreu, Jeter, Posada, Vladimir Guerrero, Johnny Damon, Matsui and they appear old and tired for baseball players. Even Mariano Rivera, who stills plays at the pentultimate level looks about 50 years old.

Peewee Herman.....

......was one of the all time great Yanks. Am I right?

Brilliant Comment by......

....RRhardin in the Althouse blog. He said: "No system works that opposes the rules [or laws] of human motivation".

Think about that. The average human reacts to incentives and the desire to fulfill basic needs followed by advanced needs. When a system or govt installs processes or rules that contradict these innate instincts, the system or govt is destined to fail. The Obama admin does not understand this concept or it disagrees with it.

Are You Ready For Some Football....

.......and some baseball and some brawls and lotsa of police overtime? Haha- the city is crying poor mouth as usual about the cost of a potential Phillies parade [last year I think the Phillies paid $1 Million to the city to stop them from whining like little liberal Democrats].

Well anyhow to get back to the point of this post...... On Sunday night Nov. 1st, the Phils are scheduled to play Game Four at home of the World Series and it could be against the Yankees. On the same day, the Eagles will play at home vs. The New York Petunias aka Giants. What does that mean you ask? .......It guarantees there will be an abundance of drunken Eagles fans boozing it up in the area right across the street from the Phillies ball park! And the city will go even more broke trying to pay all the overtime to its police dept to keep the riots and fights to only a few dead and dismembered. God, I love karma! And this will get ugly!

I am.......

.....Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel. No I am Asante Samuel.
hahahahahha.

Be Afraid ......

......Yankees be very afraid. This man er thing is coming to get you!..... and he will be riding a dune buggy! hahahahaha.

Best Scouts in Baseball.....

.......are the ones for the Phillies organization. Charlie Manuel pushed so many of the right buttons, it seemed like he was possessed or maybe sold his soul. Don't get me wrong, the Phils have many many great players but my hat is off too to the many Phillie's scouts who provided fantastic scouting reports on the Rockies and the Dodgers. Now, bring on the American League!

Constitution Center....

......only in Philadelphia can a white candidate get accused of racial insensivity by three black pols at a public museun called The Constitution Center. Makes me so proud to be from here! Here is part of the story from the Philly Inquirer:

"Three prominent African American supporters of Seth Williams, the Democratic candidate for Philadelphia District Attorney, today accused his Republican opponent, Michael Untermeyer, of "lacking the racial sensitivity" required of a top prosecutor "in an ethnically diverse city."

Untermeyer, who is white, immediately branded the charge "ludicrous" and "a smokescreen" meant to obscure examination of the campaign's substantive issues. "This election isn't about race ... What's important is that we have the third highest homicide rate of any big city" in the nation, and a bail system that is broken, he said."

Kathleen Sebelius is a Cougar .......

......or just a plain old barfly? Or Obama's Cabinet Secretary of Health & Human Services? Heh.

Hat tip to the DRUDGE REPORT!

Phils Won The World Series.....

....29 years ago today. October 21, 1980 was the date the Phillies last won the World Series not counting last year!

Phils vs. Yanks

Here is how they match up:

Phils have the edge:

• 1B Howard over Txeriera
• 2b Utley over whoever plays 2nd for the Yanks
• LF Ibanez over Damon
• CF Victorino over Swisher
• RF Werth over Matsui (is he in his fifties?)

Yanks have the edge:

• 3B Arod over Feliz

Push:

• SS Rollins vs. Jeter
• CA Ruiz vs. Posada

Other:

• The Yankees have the edge in pitching but not enough to be significant so the Phils repeat as World Series Champions!

High Hopes....

....we have high apple pie in the sky hopes! This song was a trademark of Harry Kalas and I remember my Dad singing it too along with other tunes when the mood and the whiskey struck him just right. The Phils and their fans have high hopes after tonight's 9th inning come-from-behind victory!

NY Times ......

...is laying off more people. Jeez what must it be like to work there? They all gotta be looking for a new job at a think tank or at a far left liberal non-profit [like the PEW Foundation which has hired several former Philadelphia Inquirer socialists] where they can continue to churn out leftist propaganda.

A Rioting Refresher Course....

......reminder was in my mailbox today. It seems the odds for the Phillies to repeat as World Champs has been raised. So, I have been notified that my certification as a "Top Notch Drunken Rioter" has expired and I must report to Sam's Bar & Grille to update my credentials [which I will do gladly]. Heh.

Halloween's Coming and.....

,.....ex-Phillie Randy Wolf is in town. I will load the pictures when the internets stop acting up!

Rahm Emanuel.........

...is such a phony and the MSM is complicit in deceiving its viewers. This morning, CNN had a sound bite where Emanuel criticized Wall Street for the bonuses it is paying to its employees.

Of course, Emanuel and CNN, failed to disclose Emanuel was paid more than $15 Million by an investment bank in less than three years after he left the Clinton White House!

Shame on you John King of CNN. You surely knew this and if you did not, you should have known it.

Oh Yeah ....

.....sports is kinda funny. You root for your team of course. But who do you root hard against the most? In Philly, that is a major dilemma. Cause there are so many teams and players and managers we could hate equally.

But really, who should we hate the most? The obvious choices are any New York team or any Los Angeles team which has an overrated manager like Joe Torre or the Yankees with conceited players like A-Rod or the mostly overrated Jorge Posada? So, this is a real connundrum we have in Philly. In fact, most of us can't even pronounce connundrum. But I and most of the fans in Philly truly enjoy dishing out our disgust, hate, vituperation and disdain to the teams and players we judge are most deserving of our attention. Heh.

Go Phils!

Go Phils!

Top of the fifth, the Fighting Phils lead 5-1 in the opener vs. the LA Dodgers! Looking good!

Wall Street Journal...

......is just about the only newspaper that is increasing its circulation. [Click on my post title above to see the story from one of my favorite blogs, Gateway Pundit]. Or click below:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/conservative-wall-street-journal-is-now.html

I view the Journal as an excellent product and fantastic news & opinion resource. But I wish it had a local news section and local sports section, then I would cancel my subscription to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Actually, I predict News Corp will one day roll out a customized edition of the Journal which will also offer sections with the local market's sport news and local news. In fact, I'd be surprised if Rupert Murdock was not already evaluating that as a viable business model to grow the Journal's revenue!

Liberals Are Such Prevaricators.......

...........I saw Ned Lamont last night on Hannity. Lamont had the nerve to describe himself as a "small businessman"!! Ok perhaps Lamont has started a new business and it could still be small. .........But But But.....Lamont is a fat cat and probably worth about $50 or $100 Million!!! He made his fortune providing cable TV to college students and sold that cable company for mucho dinero!! I think his wife is one of those private equity folks who the Democrats love to demonize but look the other way when the same "demons" send them a nice, generous campaign contribution.

Why do liberals like Lamont feel the need to hem and haw and be so careless with the truth?

Health Care Reform...........

........made simple perhaps.

I was thinking [yes it is painful for someone as dumb as I am] and remembered the Fed govt approved a bill earlier this year that expanded S-chip health insurance coverage for like 6 million more kids. The cost was about $1,700 per person. So I thought what if we did the same thing for the 30 million or so uninsured [of the legal variety]. At that rate, it would cost $51 Billion a year. We could pay for it by increasing the Federal income tax of every worker. It would be an increase of about $300 per year per worker!

If we have to do something, this idea of mine sounds about simple as it could be. My numbers may need to be tweaked but they probably work and the bill could be written on maybe two sheets of paper!

Mr. President and all you Congress critters, you are very welcome to use this idea of mine. Just be warned, I have a million more for you to consider!

Baggataway Tavern.....

.....is about 3 miles from my house. I have been there many times and here is a picture [from the Phila Inquirer] of some of the customers celebrating the Phillie come-from-behind win tonight.

For extra credit: What onetime NBA star and former head coach once owned this bar? His nickname was The Kangaroo Kid and he was from New Yawk!

Huge Win...

......for the Phils. Their offense left way too many ducks on the pond but Brad Lidge got the save and that is HUGE for his confidence and the team's prospects. The Phils need Lidge to repeat as World Series champs!

Go Phils! [Yikes the game ended at 2:15AM] I may go right into the office and get caught up on stuff. Nah, screw that, I am hitting the sack for a couple hours.

Go Phils.....

.....damn the Phils need a hit. It's a tie game 5-5, 1:33AM here in Philly and Matt Stairs is up with 2 outs in the top ofthe 8th. Come on Stairs! Get a g-damn hit or a passed ball so Ibanez can score from 3rd base. Count is now 3-2, I don't think they really want to give him anything to swing at. He swings and misses! Damn.

Christie's Weight..

....I googled that phrase and got 508 hits for news stories about that fact that the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey is a bit beefy.

I'd say this indicates his opponent, the incompetent, incumbent, Wall Street wizard, Jon Corzine , is getting desperate. If New Jersey voters return Corzine to office, the state deserves to continue to wither and die economically. It is fair to say the Dems and the corruption in New Jersey have bankrupted the state, increased govt spending to among the highest in the nation and caused productive taxpayers to leave the state.

So I guess we will see on election day if the voters prefer a fat, possibly competent governor to the current, bald, far left liberal tax and spend incumbent.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize......

.....I guess up is down, down is up and wishes are facts. So we join Alice In Wonderland.

[this image was borrowed from somewhere on the world wide webs].

Congratulations to .... .....

.....my nephew, David Gullotti, a senior at Loyola University Maryland. The school gave him and a classmate the "Diane Geppi-Aikens Service to Loyola Award" which is the highest honor bestowed upon student leaders. See below quote from the school website [I do not make this stuff up you know]. He is a great kid [so far of course], majoring in bio-physics and hopes to be a doctor. Way to go Dave!

Quote from Loyola Website:

Diane Geppi-Aikens Service to Loyola Award recognizes and honors distinguished members of the senior class whose enthusiastic spirit and unwavering commitment have enhanced the quality of life for students, faculty and/or staff at Loyola University. Named for a woman whose indomitable and generous spirit represented the best of Loyola University, this award is the University's highest honor bestowed upon student leaders.This year's recipients are Dave Gullotti and Ashley Vaughan.

Republicans need to.........

....put together two plans.

One will lay out a ten year budget for the nation. It will make recommendations on how to fix the soc sec, medicare deficits. For example, it should let younger people keep more of their money in private buckets aka lockboxes where no Congress critter can get his hands on it. It will eliminate [for the most part] big redundant wasteful departments like Education, Energy, HUD, etc. It will include a dedicated fed tax of $0.25 or so per gallon to fund infrastucture repairs and updating. It will itemize the areas of govt involvement it sees as appropriate and the areas where govt should butt out!

The other plan will address a real Stimulus Plan that restores the confidence of Americans. It would include a suspension of the employee's portion of the FICA tax for two years until the whole Soc Sec plan is revised and made solvent. It would be designed to encourage people to invest and save money, fix up their homes, start and expand businesses, return to school to update theire skillsets, etc.

Since Obama and his pals are clueless, the country needs Republicans to do this in writing asap!