Random thoughts while wondering what ever happened to Jose Pagan:

I apologize for the long delay between blogs (not that the world is watching.)  I ‘ve had some challenging computer issues that last couple of weeks which eventually resulted in the death of my second hard drive and the possible loss of my entire music collection.  Those issues are now straightened out so we can move forward.

If you own a dog of any kind, I strongly recommend “The Dog Whisperer” on National Geographic Channel.  Caesar Millian is a dog trainer from LA who has some old school theories on raising your dogs.  We’ve tried some of his techniques with Butkus and damned if they don’t work.

As the season slowly slips away from the soon to be former World Champion White Sox, you can see the entire problem right here:  We’re more concerned about beer then pissing away a game to the Oakland Athletics.

In Georgia, a little town got cleaned out by the INS and now the residents are complaining about it.  The town has come to a stand still, the poultry plant is going dark and the stores are pretty much deserted.  Do you think these people would be so upset if the people rounded up were drug dealers and not illegal aliens?  No, of course not because drug dealers are bad, but illegal aliens aren’t haring anybody.  Wrong again.

They’ve just concluded some kind of undercover investigation where they determined that Reggie Bush was on the take at USC.  It’s time for some radical change at the NCAA (oh wait, I forgot, Myles brand is in charge.) Why they can’t pay players something, even a small stipend is beyond me. Better yet, if the NBA and the NFL had better developmental leagues (like MLB and the NHL) kids could go right from high school to the pros.  Neither league wants to pay for it, although it seems like the NBDL is growing a bit.

With the elections a few short weeks away, people wonder why voters do not go to the poll and there seems to be such apathy over voting.  Here/s why:  people distrust politicians more today than ever before.  Here’s a guy from New Jersey that was caught being paid off.  Another guy from Ohio is going to jail.  And, in Illinois, the former Governor has been convicted in a scandal that my have resulted in the deaths of six children. It’s no wonder people don’t go to the polls.  And, what makes this climate even worse, the statehouses and halls of congress continue to be the gold ol’ rich boys club.  Our best and brightest are too smart to run because they know that the public scrutiny is tremendous and that they didn’t make their omelet without cracking a few eggs. 

On the positive side, Pittsburgh has a new Mayor and he’s 26 years old.  Let’s see how that works out,

Don’t eat spinach!  I’ve been totally compliant with that for my entire life.  My only concern is for Popeye.  If I were Bluto, I would make a massive assault on Olive Oyl right now while Popeye is lying in bed with e-coli.  “My stomach is finished, cause I ate my spinach, I’m Popeye the sailor man, toot toot!.”

The pope continues to apologize for his remarks about radical Muslims that have really stirred the pot.  Your holiness, they are radical Muslims.  What did you expect them to do when you took a shot at them, light a candle for you and say 20 hail Allahs?  I have to admit, he had guts to say it.  That’s why he gets the big hat.

Finally, in China, at the Beijing Zoo, a drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure and was bitten by the Panda.  The man retaliated by biting the Panda back.  Apparently, prior to the man’s arrival, the Panda hadn’t had a bite all day.  So, he bit him.