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Michigan State has won their last 4 bowl games, while Alabama has lost their last 2.  It'll be 11 points by game-time but super-duper-interesting

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The Clark County Library Employees (Las Vegas) are now taking-off both Thanksgiving and the day before and Christmas and the day before, and they call the day before Thanksgiving "Family Day," and claim it's a holiday, and that the day before Christmas is also (?)  You'd think that public servants would be eager to accommodate the Public, many of whom have-off the day before Thanksgiving and Christmas.  The Library Employees are members of the Teamsters Union, which saw 3 of their Presidents in a row go-off to prison.  The Clark CLE are self-serving and well-known for their, big ass.  I wanted to bet Michigan State on the money-line to beat Alabama outright, but Connor Cook, their quarterback, was wearing a harness for his shoulder at practice on Sunday, it doesn't sound like he's going to be 100%.  Gambling a large amount heightens the senses, and is a lot of fun.  Connor Cook went to Walsh Jesuit, outside of Akron, Mike Vrabel who played so well for the Patriots, went there.  But Cook is from Hinckley, in Medina County, which adjoins Summit and Cuyahoga Counties, where is Akron and Cleveland, so it's a long jaunt but worth-it.  In 1818, there was a huge massacre of wild-life around Hinckley, providing a buzzard smorgasbord (actually, the Turkey Vulture), and ever since, the Buzzards have returned to Hinckley on March 15, as their ancestors ingrained fond-memories of the food-fest in their continued offspring, with Hinckley's population of several thousand swelling by 50 thou, it's quite the big-thing in that part of Ohio.  The Eternal Question, never to be answered, is why are the punters and kickers always White Guys (resounding feets)

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there's an extra wouldn't in there,  in all sincerity, I wish you didn't exist

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I've got a ton of Hits already today, you're insatiable.  Yesterday, I worked-out, then went and gave blood, I feel like I was hit with a rock.  In early Feb., Mike is going to Fairbanks to see the Aurora Borealis, sounds real-good.  I saw "Everest" at Tropicana Cinemas at Trop and Pecos, $2, I often go there Fri. afternoon, then go katty-kornered across the street to Wal-Mart for groceries.  That was pretty-good but sad, all those people dying.  When I was in Kathmandu, I flew in a 10-seater and saw the top of Everest, usually you can't see it and the flight is cancelled.  Some nice, little, fellow, attached himself to me as a guide, and one of the places I went was this Holy Pool of Water, where there was some naked guy, painted-red, my guide told me that he said that I could take his picture, I didn't want to take his picture.  Some people don't deal-well with the Holidays, Thanksgiving Day, 1980, Priscilla Ford drove down the sidewalk of the main-drag in Reno, killing 7 and maiming many.  On Dec. 20, 2015, Lakeisha Holloway, drove a quarter-mile down the Las Vegas Strip, often on the sidewalk, killing one and maiming numerous, she dragged an obese Mexican woman 200 yards underneath, who was all crammed-in there, you gotta figure had she been svelte she wouldn't probably wouldn't have been dragged at all

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ISIS can fight like hell, got no air-power

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Armin Hary also anchored the winning German 4x100 metres team at the 1960 Rome Olympics, after the apparently-winning U.S.A. team was disqualified for running out of its lane, when the first 3 guys get close to the next runner, you yell "Stick" and hand-it-off, all the while staying in your assigned-lane, nothing is easier.  Also, the apparently-winning 1988 Olympic 4x100 metres U.S.A. team, wearing those silly-hoods, was disqualified for running out of its lane.  During his Track Career, it was well-known that Armin took payments from Adidas and Puma, under-the-table, as they were forbidden under the IOC rules of that time.  Armin as a child during and after WW 11 had known real-hunger for long periods, and wasn't going to be a big doctor like Dave Sime (he devised a lens for Bob Griese, who was blind in one eye, and made other medical-improvements), and nobody wanted to see Armin go-back to a state of near-poverty.  But in 1980, Armin was sentenced to a year and half in prison for defrauding the Catholic Church in a real-estate deal, but the Germans decided to heck with it, and just fined-him.  There was no sin that Armin could commit that wouldn't be forgiven by his Countrymen, and today both Armin and Dave are enjoying their Golden Years basking in their Nation's admiration   

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I've got other things to do, but you people need this bad, tsk.  Congrats to Terry Bowden and the Akron U. Zips (short for Zippers) on their bowl-win over favored Utah State, who came-back and almost got it. Ha, I once stood on Boise State's famous blue-field and didn't notice that it was blue, well, I hadn't been to bed the night before.  Steve Harvey seems like an all-right guy, now, some of us have made big-mistakes.  Usually the Miss Universe Contest goes under the radar, now Miss Columbia and Miss Philippines should be able to milk-this for a lot. Just last year, Miss Universe gave-up the crown after being adjudged fat, in 1995, Miss Universe, from Venezuela, was 174 lbs. halfway thru her reign, and was making public appearances like that (was 122 when she won).  Donald Trump milked-this thoroughly, calling her an eating-machine (during the contest, when asked her plans for the future, she said that eventually she wanted to own a restaurant), and worked with her to reduce.  This General Court Martial for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is very-bad, I'm sure that he shouldn't have deserted in 2009, but he was punished a lot by being a prisoner of the Taliban, the faggoty bastards, for 5 years

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Running a 10-second 100 Metres on a dirt-and-cinder track in 1960 was a whole lot better than running a 9.5 second 100 Metres on today's bouncy synthetic-tracks by one of these 'roided-up characters.  Jamaica's own Sports Minister said that it would be impossible to crank-out so many "great" sprinters from such a small population.  Armin Hary and Dave Sime, there were real-men in those days

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... Only "19," it must be nice being he ...

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Congratulations to Christian McCaffrey of Stanford for setting the NCAA Record for most yards in a season, with 3496, and then finishing 2nd in the balloting for the Heisman Trophy.  Only "19," it must be nice being him.  Christian's Dad is Ed McCaffrey, a long-time player in the NFL, who caught 101 passes for the Broncos in the 2000 Season.  On his Mom's side, her Dad is Dave Sime, a brilliant sprinter and the winner of the Silver Medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics.  Ed McCaffrey"is 6'5" while Christian is a modest 6' and 200 lbs, and doesn't possess the lightning-speed of his grandfather, finishing 6th in the 100 Metres in the Colorado State Meet, Gramps would smoke-him today.  But Christian has garnered enough athleticism and intelligence from his forebears to attend an institution such as Stanford and perform so well on the field, may he continue in his success

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The most prestigious event with the accompanying title of "World's Fastest Human," of any Summer Olympics, is the finals of the 100 Metre Dash.  And White Guys used to be good at this, with Bobby Morrow of the U.S.A. winning in 1956, and Valeri Borzov of the U.S.S.R. winning in 1972, and also in the 1960 Rome Olympics (I don't know why they aren't good anymore, I'm not their keeper).  Amongst the finalists in Rome was "23" year-old Armin Hary, of Germany, who came out of the blocks so quickly that he's considered to have the fastest sprinters' start of all-time.  Armin boastfully called himself, "The Thief of Starts."  Dave Sime of the U.S.A. was the favorite to win the 100.  When you look at the photo of the beginning of the race, you'll see that Armin Hary is, after 5 metres, 2 metres ahead of everybody else. Knowing at the end that Sime was about even with him, Armin, who had worked as a bricklayer and sales-clerk, proved wiser than someone who was to later perform over 10 thou ophthalmological operations, by lunging at the tape, and breasting-it a few inches before Dave, who was glancing-over to see where was Armin, his effort leaving him sprawling on the track, but as the winner of the 1960 Rome Olympics 100 Metre Dash.  A next day's publication, A Thief Of Starts Gets Away With A Close One  

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The 10 days of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo was just completed in Las Vegas, every day sold-out as always.  Dec. is slow, and LV is glad to have the cowboys, tho I've been told they're bum-tippers and that some will spit tobacco-juice on the carpet, even in the best casinos, while gambling.  On the History Channel they have this thing going where they offer proof that Adolf Hitler survived WW 11 and wound-up in S.A.  I've never heard this before, Hitler wouldn't want to survive with the German Cities in Ruins and the Russians running-wild, and he knew very well the recent fate of Mussolini.  There's very-good evidence that Hitler died in the FuhrerBunker (I've been above where it's at, an apartment-complex lawn and play-area).  Just now, for the first time, when I've seen Adolf on the History Channel, he's looked sad, I hope I'm not bothering him (he likes me).  I drink 3 gals. of whole-milk a week, easily-digested protein, cheap, tastes good.  Fujis are the best.  I just saw "Little Odessa," on TV, man, that's a good-movie, I payed money to see that when it came out, even Tim Roth, as Joshua, didn't have it in him to whack his own father.  I did my laundry this morning, I always hand-wash my souvenir-shirts and lights in a 2-gal bucket, if you stick your feet in there for a couple seconds with detergent and bleach, pull 'em out and let them dry for a few minutes, their skin is so-improved (impressive feets).  McKayla hopes to win my hand by getting me to believe that she's a pervert (?)  

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Having my widdle puppies on their hind-legs begging for another offering makes Ed feel so important.  Yesterday, I was wondering if I'd been bitten by a tsetse-fly, I was yawning all day.  I slept so-well last nite and this morning, probably got 8 hours, total, I very seldom sleep so much.  Name one thing better than a good night's sleep.  Prior to the 50th Anniversary of the Harvard Class of 1962, they sent out questionnaires so that the results could be put into a book on the Class.  Ted Kaczynski was a member of the Class and under the query "Awards," put-down  Eight Life Sentences, and this was included in the book, with some of the other Grads of the Class outraged (Hah, this is an outrage!).  All this constant blabber of the History Channel about Extraterrestrials is stupid, why would there be all these hundreds or thousands of years ago, and nowadays we don't see any.  No, it was very-capable men who built the Great Pyramids of Egypt, not beings from another planet.  Is it my imagination, or are there an inordinate amount of illegal-shootings in thinly-populated Colorado?  Before I began my Blog, today, I already had a lot of Hits, now, I want you people to send Ed money, the more the better (both the more people and the more money)  

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In San Diego, Peter Robbins, now "59," who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts Specials from 1965 to 1971, was sentenced to 4 yrs and 8 months in prison, of which he has to serve at least 80%.  He's a very sick-man who had been sending letters threatening violence to various people including SD Sheriff, Bill Gore, in this instance offering money to have him killed.  We hope that he receives ample treatment while he's locked-up, he couldn't handle the fall from his early great success.  Wouldn't he receive residuals every-time the Specials are shown, I would think that would be a lot of money.  Once again, I'm sending a Christmas Card to Ted Kaczynski (See My Blog for Jan. 6, 2009, Feb. 18, 2013, Dec. 5, 2013, April 17, 2014, and Dec.9, 2014), now I know that most of you haven't had a thought since conception that didn't have to do with yourselves, but can you try to imagine what Christmas would be like in prison?  No. 04475-046, U.S. Penitentiary-Max, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, Colorado,  8126-8500.  By exposing the stupidity of the FBI (in one of his letters, he even said they were stupid, an easy conclusion), a few years before 9-11, Dr. Kaczynski, inadvertently did his Country a great-service, unfortunately his effort went for naught (?)  I saw in the NY Times that Diana Damrau, who I heard at La Scala 6 months ago (See My Blog for Oct.4, 2015), was at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, singing from Schubert, Strauss, Poulenc, and others, it would have well-worth being there               

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That guy that was gunned-down in Chicago was on Angel Dust and had been threatening people with a knife and had punctured the tire of a police-car, I don't think was destined to collect Social Security.  Brazil's economy is sluggish, good, that means cheap prices.  In 1998, Dodie Rotherman, the head of the San Diego County branch of the American Red Cross, was paid 302 thousand dollars, no wonder it's a nonprofit.  

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I once saw a movie, where this middle-aged guy had a business which also included storage, and unbeknownst to him there were a bunch of Zombies in suspended-animation in there.  This guy unwittingly sets the Zombies free, and they're running-around eating People's brains.  A high school kid who comes-in to work there after school is told of this, he says ...You F... A... to the middle-aged guy ...Watch your mouth, boy, if you value your job...   Today, is the 35th anniversary of the death of John Lennon.  I've been to The Dakota, and the nice-doorman pointed out the location in the driveway where this occurred, and after John had been nice enough to sign an album-cover for him earlier in the day.  By that time, he had already been locked-up for 22 years, I said, I hope it was worth it to him, we were laughing

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You know, I wouldn't think about McKayla at all if I had something else going-on in my life, female-wise, I don't, I don't get any traffic, I don't come-across anybody I might want, anywhere, well, that one I mentioned in SD, my yoga-instructor, she'd be perfect, but that's SD.  I've seen a picture of McKayla, an avowed lesbian, and Taylor Swift, in a tight-embrace, this was due to Taylor's agency signing-up McKayla, after all the pub I gave her.  The super cash-cow, Taylor, isn't a lesbian, and wouldn't want this for her image--ha, some agency, the agency from Hell.  I understand that McKayla has a bum-ticker, I hope she understands that I was only jesting about the Last Rites.  After I got in to London Gatwick, I used an ATM, as I needed pounds to get-over to Heathrow to fly-out to Egypt.  The ATM had bank-markings, anyway, it was rigged and overcharged me on the transaction 200 U.S., I had been in Jolly Old for 40 minutes and had gotten ripped-off.  A day and a half later, I left the Egyptian Museum, and used an ATM at that 5-Star Hotel that's halfway between the Egyptian and the Square, and another transaction on my card was done after I did mine, costing me 260 U.S., of course I made the bank aware of this, and they credited my account.  So far as that 213.15 U.S. that Wells Fargo refused to credit-me at the Mexico City Airport 5 years ago, they will be crediting-me, they just don't know it.  Except for Swine, this life would be pretty good.  Any of you comely-woman interested in Ed, let it be known

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I'm sad to be done telling of my trip, I enjoyed the both.  Luke Fury is already casting that tongue of his (think of a frog) towards Deontay Wilder, the guy is never dull.  I see that Brazil now has a 90-day visa waiver for certain countries, the U.S. amongst them, until Sept. 2016.  Certainly wise, as Rio is an expensive-ticket and at the end of the world, away, had they continued-on with their absurd $200 cost to Americans, as well as a lot of rigmarole, there'd be nobody there to see the events of their super-duper expensive Olympics, just a bunch of Brazilians with free-tickets, if that.  I was all-over Brazil 25 years ago, and have been wanting to return, but them making-out like it was some big honor to go to their impoverished flea-bitten country made this impossible, I'm not going to be treated that way.  When I was there before, I just showed-up.  I was in S.A. last year, it's always a lot of fun.  If you don't go places and see and do things, life is intolerable.  I was talking to Mark, the retired UNLV Lit Prof., on Monday, and a man who's been coming-in there for years, came-up and handed Mark a benjy.  Seems like Mark (a sports-fanatic with a brilliant mind, a Hebe, correct-spelling) gave this guy 4 football-games off the top of his head, and this guy played and hit all 4. This guy bets a lot, initially I had thought that he was probably a thug, as he's heavily-muscled and tough-looking, coming into the gym to further his thugishness.  But I've gotten to know him some, and he's a chiropractor, but functions as the manager of many chiropractors who only do car-accidents.  In relation to healing-people ...There's no money in that (stuff)...  Healin' is good, and makin' money is also good, he's a very nice man.  On Dec. 9, Happy 20th to McKayla, gymnastics is for girls.  By the time I was her age I had 2 years of college, she's never come-across as being very-bright, maybe she should study books, or go to art museums, whatever.  She has good-handwriting 

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The U.S. and Europe are full of Ragheads, teeming millions of them, and incidents by ISIS can't be stopped.  None of these Moslems had to be allowed-in, much less in these vast numbers.  I've been talking about this for a long-time, you idiots with your 40-watt brains never listen to Ed, that I possess superhuman-powers gives me an advantage over others, certainly you dumb bastards.  You're dragging me down with-you.  In Islam, a warrior dying in jihad goes straight to heaven.  When Mehmet 11 (Mehmet Fathi, Mehmet the Conqueror), besieged Constantinople, which fell in 1453, a lot of guys who had nothing to live-for, stormed the walls, as they'd abdicate this life for a heavenly-existence.  This mindset is currently evident.

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Canterbury was my last visit on this 48-day trip, I went back to London's Victoria Station, and just 10 pounds to Gatwick from the bus station.  It took an hour and a half, as the English have an antiquated road-system around London, such that it takes forever to go a short-distance.  The driver was a sociable-guy and we chewed the fat throughout, I enjoyed it, he was all-right.  As I so often do, I got to the airport around 9 P.M. and just stayed there all night, no rush to get there, and it don't cost nuthin'.  I was talking to a Canadian guy in his early 30's who had been there for a 3-day Rock Festival.  I hadn't been to bed the night before either, as I had been on the bus, a guy like me doesn't need such trifles.  I flew-out at 11 A.M. the next day on the crumby Virgin Atlantic, rude employees, and if you ask them for some little thing, you don't get it.  And 9 hours later, I was back in Las Vegas.  I would have asked McKayla to come-along, had she been deserving, unfortunately, she's not.  It would have given me a woman to protect, and give consideration, and she would have slowed-me down, but I would have happily done-so.  We would have been in and out of the Middle East and Europe before all the trouble-ensued, this girl has no spirit of adventure, tsk.  We would have eaten copious-amounts of delicious foods in the morning and early evening, but she, as did I, would have lost a lot of weight due to the fun-exertion of the trip ...Dear, do you mind sitting, while I order another dinner...  ...Of course, not...     

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Took the bus from Glasgow to Edinburgh and used my RT back to bus station near Victoria Station and then 2 hours on the train to Canterbury, to which I had never been.  Canterbury Cathedral was founded by Archbishop Augustine in 597, it was damaged by Viking Raids and destroyed by fire in 1067, a year after the Norman Conquest, rebuilt from 1070 to 1077, but greatly damaged by an earthquake in 1382, the Gothic Cathedral is from 1390.  Its interior is very beautiful, with some of the stained-glass from 1190.  The event for which it is best-known is the murder of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, on Dec. 29, 1170.  Thomas was a good friend of King Henry 11, and after taken the priestly-rites became Archbishop in 1162.  Henry had thought that Thomas would acquiesce to his wishes in the continual power struggle between the Crown and the Church.  He thought wrong, as Thomas took his post seriously and became devout and ascetic.  On the afore-day, Henry was heard to say, probably ...Who lets their Lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric? and not ...Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?  4 knights were moved to action and went to the Cathedral, probably to arrest Thomas.  The Archbishop resisted, a strongly-built man, one of the knights wound-up on his back, arose with his sword and cleaved Thomas' skull.  Of course, I took the l-hour Cathedral Tour, there's an altar at the spot where Thomas was slain, and many miracles have been attributed to the Saint's intercession.  For centuries Pilgrims brought money and rich-gifts to the Cathedral and Thomas' Shrine.  In 1538, King Henry V111 summoned the Saint to Court to answer charges of Treason, not appearing, Thomas was found guilty, and his Shrine's riches becoming that of the Crown. The Cathedral of Canterbury is the Seat of the Anglican Faith and its 80 mil believers, and is in a state of disrepair with a leaking-roof and everything else, such that there is a continual Fund-Raising Campaign, to which Scott and his Mum have contributed, those of the Anglican Denomination and the Fat Butt can get off-it and give a good-donation to this worthy-purpose