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‘Boiler Up!

Posted on Saturday September 10th, 2005 | Comments Off on ‘Boiler Up!

Purdue wins 49-24 over Akron, next week will be a tough one, @ AZ who is said to have a really good defense, hopefully it will be on TV, I had to rely on ESPN gamecast to get a “live” update and it messed up a few times, one sec it was 42-24 and then it was 28-7 so I was pretty happy. Notre Dame dominated Michigan today, what a joke the “mighty” UM D was, it was suppose to be dominate, and their offense is just plain bad, Henne needs to be replaced, a kid who went to the same school as I did is the 3rd QB for UM, he was “Mr. Indiana” in Football and Baseball, so the kid is athletic, hopefully he will get his chance.

We have Notre Dame in 3 weeks, we have won the last 3 years and I so want #3 in a row this year. Purdue is said to have a weak schedule with no Michigan or Ohio State, but I do not think any schedule in the Big Ten is ever weak. I am still not convinced ND is that good, Pitt was/is awful, and UM isn’t much better, I do think ND has a incredible Defense, but then, so do we.

We are watching Ohio State and Texas, go Buckeyes! I hate Texas…. So far 22-16 OSU, but a lot of game left.

Maryanne and Joel are coming down for a BBQ and NFL tomorrow, I’m looking forward to it, been a while since we seen them, it will be a beautiful day, Sunday Football, … what more could I ask?

Have a good weekend….

WOOHOO! Texas turnover!….

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Deep Thought of the Day

Posted on Saturday September 10th, 2005 | Comments Off on Deep Thought of the Day

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alchohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months warm, happy, and floating?you finish off as pleasure.

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“You’re doing a good job Brownie” – GWB

Posted on Saturday September 10th, 2005 | 1 comment

Embattled FEMA Director Michael Brown is being sent back to Washington and a new leader has been picked to handle on-site Hurricane Katrina relief operations, a senior administration official tells CNN

www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/09/katrina.washington/index.html

Hmm….. Did George tell a lie or is he cutting his losses? 5+ years and this is the first time he has replaced a defective administrator, so I am wondering what the deal really is.

$20 says Brownie gets a medal.

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This is where your Relief $ is being spen

Posted on Friday September 2nd, 2005 | Comments Off on This is where your Relief $ is being spen

I have looked all over for this story on a site, but so far the only place I find it is on CNN Headline news. Here in Florida the last 8 minutes or so of the 30 minute cycle are “Local News” and one of the stories they had was a Katrina Shelter for the refugees from AL, MS and LA outside Orlando in Groveland, FL.

They had it set up for 300 people, beds, showers, clothes, and massive amounts of catered food, and had a huge turnout of volunteers to help out.

Not one person that needed it was there.

The director was LAUGHING how well the volunteers where going to eat, and they showed the food and I must say I am impressed on the high quality of food. They also showed the new beds, new blankets and clothes and everything else and not one person showed up.

And it goes into part of my other issue I have with people in “power” like Bush and this woman in Groveland FL laughing and smirking when 1000’s are dead and 100,000 or more are homeless.

USE YOUR F***** HEAD, no one wants to see some person of “authority” smirk or listen to them chuckling when we are in a national disaster. At least fake that you care when you are on the camera.

Rice is said to have been shopping in NY buying shoes, when a woman approached her asking how she can be on vacation and shopping when a Cat 4 just destroyed NO she had the woman physically removed by security.

Yeah, we are such a great nation, I can’t tell you how proud I was watching George flying over the destruction in Air Force One on his way to a Fundraiser for the GOP in SD and then some golf. He must have had a great view in those 747 windows flying at 300MPH.

CNN had the FEMA director on tv asking him, why does CNN have better information then FEMA and why the tsunami victims had food drops 2 days after and it’s day 5 and still no food drop? All this FEMA guy could say is “we are going to”

FEMA needs to be disbanded… they simply have no clue.

The mayor of New Orleans is far more professional then I would be, I would have called Bush out with much more words bleeped out.

This is a sick sick sick mess, and I don’t know what is worse, the Cat 4 or the “help”.

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Harold’s Week

Posted on Monday August 29th, 2005 | Comments Off on Harold’s Week

**Written 27th Aug

Just under 2 hours before I do another draft for FFL, actually 3 drafts. 715PM is my second draft of the 3 I am running, and I might have to draft for a friend who is still grieving over the death of his stepson.

Then not paying attention to the date I joined a public league that drafts at 930PM. No biggie, worse case I miss the last round or two of the first draft, I am not missing the first few rounds of a draft, which would be stupid.

This week has flown by pretty fast which is fine with me I am still in shock over my friend’s stepsons’ death. His funeral was today and I regret not being there for it but with our issues with the truck taking much more then expected to fix…. Well, timing is never good.

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