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2012-01-26T10:29:00.000-08:00

On November 20, 1943 22-year old Sergeant William J. Bordelon of San Antonio landed under heavy fire on Tarawa with the 2nd Marine Division. Seeing most of his comrades being killed Sergeant Bordelon devised satchels of explosives and singlehandedly began assaulting Japanese Pillboxes a Pillbox consisting of a concrete bunker with a machine gun machine gunner and maybe 5 more Japs. Sergeant Bordelon personally assaulted and blew up 2 Pillboxes killing everyone within and then was struck by machine gun fire as he assaulted and blew up a 3rd Pillbox. Refusing medical attention Sergeant Bordelon went to the aid of wounded Marines saving lives then he assaulted yet a 4th Pillbox with it being blown up as he was killed instantly by machine gun fire. Sergeant Bordelon was awarded the Medal of Honor and is buried at Fort Sam Houston where my Parents lay honored to be amongst him.

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2012-01-26T10:03:00.000-08:00

I feel badly about constantly bringing up Kelly Ripa as it's not in my nature to pick at somebody but Kelly and Myself are the only "Secrets" that I know that the American Media are concealing from the American People for sure there's 10 more that these Weasels are keeping to themselves. I've been avoiding the TV Media recently and am feeling a lot better anybody would. Avoiding Evil That's Good. The Medal of Honor was originally a Nothing Medal begun during the Civil War and given even en masse to an entire Regiment for not leaving at the end of their enlistment (uh, ok, I guess we'll stick around). It was only during WW I that it became a very significant medal only awarded for the highest of Valor with about 2000 being awarded during and since WW I. Since WW I every case for the Medal of Honor was given one year for it's Truth to be Proven and one year only. Over the past 20 years people have been allowed to campaign for the Medal of Honor with Negroes from WW II being awarded the Medal of Honor after ample support and even today some Silly Jews are campaigning for the Medal of Honor saying that their relatives were discriminated against almost a century ago in WW I. Life is often unfair but this campaigning for the Medal of Honor for events from long ago is in very bad taste if you get it you get it if you don't you don't the One-Year Rule is the best.

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2012-01-18T09:58:00.000-08:00

It's been 4 years since the entire American Media learned that Kelly Ripa is Gay during which time they've dishonorably kept this "Secret" from the American People. Christi Paul of CNN was the only one of the American Media interested in revealing this Truth to the American People and I haven't seen her since what have you Evil People done to her is she still alive. I want it to be well understood that I regard every member of the American Media to be Scum.

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2012-01-11T10:33:00.000-08:00

Recently I donated my annual $500, not much, to the ASPCA and I expect this of each of you. I've now qualified for blood donation 7 times in a row as I use deep Yoga breathing to control my blood pressure, I've now donated 28 times in Las Vegas and twice in San Diego. Only 6% of the Adults in this country donate blood largely due to fear of a little needle being so craven is a serious problem go see the Wizard. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics Shirley Babishoff of the U.S. (whose coach was Mark Schubert who I remember from a Phys. Ed. Class at Akron Firestone) accused the East German Swimmers, particularly Cornelia Ender who won 4 Gold Medals, of being on Performance Enhancing Drugs. The American Media dubbed Shirley a Poor Sport and a Sore Loser as they despise the Truth, she became a mailman. On January 9, 1998 a truckload of pigs was delivered to a slaughterholuse in Wiltshire, England. Pigs are very intelligent and know when they're about to be killed sensing their imminent doom 2 of the male pigs made a run for it and managed to get under a fence they then were seen swimming a large icy river and fleeing in the distance. The animal-loving English Public dubbed them "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Pig" the one was captured after 6 days and the other a day and a half later as people had been feeding them and had refused to turn them in. The freedom and lifeloving pigs were bought by a newspaper and sent to a sanctuary to live out their natural lives in comfort. The Clark County Library District has discontinued their Sunday subscription to the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" one of the most esteemed newspapers in the country, they did this to save $60 a year but mind you there's plenty of money for salaries and pensions, what Union do the employees belong to, the Teamsters (if it moves unionize it).

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2012-01-04T10:29:00.000-08:00

Oklahoma State-Stanford was one of the best games I've ever seen Mike Gundy brought ice for the Fiesta. I know a guy who played football for Virginia Tech I feel sorry for him that was a touchdown. I was just watching "Bonanza" Ben Cartwright has 3 sons by 3 wives all of whom have died it doesn't sound like being married to Ben would be very good for longevity. Mitt Romney's wife has Multiple Scleroris have a lst Lady pushing a walker across the Rose Garden had Kerry been elected have a lst Lady who's a foreigner who uses bad language. Nothing is better than the long-distance bus that of Greyhound and the other lines everybody's asleep at 3 A.M. except for the steadfast driver taking the bus down the lonely Interstate the Gray Knights of the Highway. And they take no guff a guy on another bus said that the driver put a girl off the bus saying she had smirked at him. One of my favorites was a friendly upbeat Black Guy going from Phoenix to Albuquerque who said to a Black Guy in the back who had asked him to turn down the heat that's the 2nd time you've asked ask me again and I'll put you off the bus (the driver need to take charge so that the passengers aren't bothered). You'll never catch one of you people taking the Greyhound as you go around with your noses up in the air why you don't see much. In Oakland I saw my Indians defeat the Athletics in 12 innings on a beautiful Spring Day.......You're Such a Loser Dad...... On my 49 day jaunt around much of the country I saw 6 Major League Games in 6 Parks I had never been in. When Baseball is done right it makes Football and Basketball seem crude by comparison. To Los Angeles (hadn't been to bed for 3 nights) where I went to the Getty and then back to Las Vegas. I greatly enjoyed my Bus Trip and hope that you enjoyed reading of it.

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2011-12-27T10:06:00.000-08:00

I had been to Seattle before a real nice place with a lot of that Microsoft money scattered downtown I was in their beautiful new library. I was in the first Starbucks still existing which will excite (caffeine jolt) those like myself. Pike Place Market is unique with those guys expertly throwing big fish around without smacking the onlookers. I saw the Mariners play the Rangers at SAFECO Field cold as heck in early May even with the retractable roof closed one side is open. There's something on the History Channel about Port Wine. 32 years ago I was in Porto, Portugal where the grapes you buy in a store are so sugar-laden that after you eat them you have to wash your lips off with hot soapy water. I bought a couple bottles of vintage Port Wine and took them back to the States giving one to my older brother Bob in Cleveland and opening the other after I drove to the West Coast it tasted like Mad Dog. I saw Puss In Boots at "Tropicana Cinemas" at Trop and Pecos (buck fifty) enjoyable for all kids. I belonged to the Cat Lovers Club until it caved in after the death of our very capable President. One of her buddies and a member was Bill Bennett the Casino Mogul and Bill gave us money in 10 thou increments which was spent quickly as we'd give free shots and neuter to anybody's cat we minored in dogs, we only allowed loving people to adopt our stray cats. One of the Club Trustees was Rex Bell the Clark County District Attorney at that time who passed away recently at "76." As an Assistant District Attorney Rex never lost a case his Mom was Silent Screen Legend Clara Bow.

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2011-12-20T11:05:00.000-08:00

I've been through the Columbia Gorge on the Oregon side a couple times during daylight it's supposed to be awe-inspiring it's allright. I've been to Portland a few times founded in 1851 and known as The City of Roses I always like to go to Powell's City of Books the largest bookstore in the country although now you can't just walk into their Rare Book Room. Portland has more park acreage than any other American City and you feel really good being there. Before you Critters buy the farm you should see The International Test Rose Garden begun in 1917 they're always trying to produce new strains of roses. You need to go when the roses are in bloom in June, July or August when all that rain is put to good use in 550 different typed of roses not just a few of each but as much as 4 yards by 10 yards of one particular variety. Say I was there the first Saturday in June when they have the Rose Parade, this is one of the best things in the entire country they're still trying to produce a black rose and they all smell the same.

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2011-12-20T10:45:00.000-08:00

Recently a" small plane crashed killing the Head and Assistant Women's Basketball Coach at Oklahoma State the pilot was "82," we all make our own problems. Since leaving Cleveland LeBron James has endured many vitriolic outburst, playing for the Championship twice in 8 years is outstanding and he was under no obligation to stay in Cleveland once his contract was up. I left Ohio after 32 years I owed the place nothing and neither does he. Many low vipers will continue to harangue him that 's what this country has come to. Many of us guys would like to see "Moneyball" win the Oscar for Best Picture and Brad Pitt win the Oscar for Best Actor. I'm going to have to give "Lowe's" more of my business. Strike the Gold was put down recently due to an infected leg at the good age of 23, I bet and won on him at the Kentucky Derby, the son of Majestic Gold and Alydar who died the same day that Strike the Gold ran his first race his Dad never got a chance to see him race.

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2011-12-14T10:19:00.000-08:00

Dave "Smoke" Stewart now "54" was a Major League right-handed pitcher of great prowess who 4 consecutive times won 20 or more games for the Oakland Athletics in large part due to his smoking fastball, in his career he was 9-1 against the fabled Roger Clemens when he was in his prime. And today the NASCAR driver Tony Stewart is known as "Smoke Stewart" things have gotten so bad that the writers will steal your nickname. Denver is a nice, clean city that I've been to a few times, founded in 1858 due to the Pikes Peak Gold Strike, I went to the Capitol Building which I had toured previously the 15th step up to the entrance marks l mile above sea level. In previous trips I had toured the Denver Mint which produces most of the coins in the U.S. (look for the D) and the Coors Brewery the largest in the world (workers are allowed 2 free beers at the end of each shift our kind of place). I went to the History Museum and their very good Art Museum (you people should try art museums as art liberates one's mind and afterwards your thinking is optimum of course anything might help). I saw the Rockies play the Pirates at Coors Field ice-cold at night in late April.

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2011-12-07T09:52:00.000-08:00

I just saw "Animal House" on TV, a guy goes to a women's college to pick up his girlfriend and is told that she died so he takes her roommate. A friend of mine has no medical insurance I told him that he has to rely on Obamacare and the Great Black Father, Barry is a nice guy but he's misguided as there's little money for that or much of anything else. The Republican Candidates thus far are so weak that maybe Barry can do it again, I'm waiting for a groundswell of support for myself on the Telepathic Ticket, hey I'd do good. John Walsh and America's Most Wanted are back on TV and many are happy about this. The United States is trying to force Gay Rights down everybody's throats that shows a lot of arrogance look at the way this country is should we be posturing. Not many would believe Japan's contention that they actually wanted to give the U.S. a half-hour warning before they attacked at Pearl Harbor. That would have allowed the many well-trained soldiers and sailors to arm themselves and gather ammunition resulting in 3 times as many downed Japanese planes. The Japanese Intelligence was so bad that they attacked when the 3 American aircraft carriers were elsewhere, their two waves of aerial assault only resulted in the Battleships Arizona and Oklahoma being rendered permanently useless. Those silly Japs didn't even attack the Americans' ancillary facilities for ship repair, fuel and their submarine pens which would have been far more valuable to destroy. The Japanese bungled effort at Pearl Harbor exposed them to be big fools, at best Admiral Nagumo's bringing of a huge fleet of 6 aircraft carriers and 24 other vessels 4000 miles undetected was a moot victory in logistics as how the heck could that be done. I used to know a Black guy who was Retired Navy who told me that he was at Pearl Harbor and that this was the source of the big scar he had on his right forearm, he said that initially due to the many casualties they only taped it stitching it later. He said that he had a friend in the brig on the "Arizona" awaiting Dishonorable Discharge.

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2011-11-29T09:46:00.000-08:00

You'll be glad to learn that I had 6 months' of ground-in caked-on guck scraped off my teeth and that they feel a lot better. Tim Tebow is a do-gooding Virgin and is doing quite good with the Denver Broncos as he had while winning the Heisman Trophy at Florida. Tennyson's Galahad possessed the strength of 10 for his heart was pure, he had never known a woman in a carnal sense of his 2 companions one was like Galahad while the other had once but he had repented (as long as you repent). Everything about Tim is unorthodox, despite his rugged play he's seldom hurt, I saw a photo in the paper last year of him bending a D-Lineman. I've seen you women before and I know what you're like many of you would like to get your hot hands on Tim so that he's no longer this way, well, you can just forget about that and try to think better thoughts for a change (if that's possible). I blame the parents of the TV Media for them being the way they are as none of them had any propers brin gins' up (shameless whores for that paycheck). The History Channel has forgotten its original purpose and now shills mindless pap for the unwashed masses, it should change its name. Jerry Sandusky and Bernie Fine have had all this fall on them while not having been convicted of anything, it's the Monkey Majority Mob Mentality so prevalent in this country today. Merry Christmas.

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2011-11-13T14:13:00.000-08:00

The cottage that Hoover (1874 to 1964 living to be 90) was born in to Quaker parents is on the grounds and I really enjoyed the fine museum that illustrated a mostly very successful life. Herbert Hoover claimed to be the first student at Stanford graduating in Geology in 1895 it was there that he met his wife Lou who also graduated in Geology. At 24 his company sent him to Western Australia where he found gold deposits he persuaded them to buy for a mil and they mined 60 mil in gold. He and Lou went to China and then back to Australia (when President, Herbert and Lou would converse in Mandarin Chinese when they wanted their conversation to be private). During and after WW I Herbert Hoover did suberb work with humanitarian food efforts and then was Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge (March, 1921 to August, 1928) where he did much to cut waste in business and industry such that many consider him to be the best ever Sec. of Commerce. The prosperity and feel good era of the 20's won him the Presidency in 1928 and even taking much of the "Solid South" as Al Smith was derided as a Papist and a "Wet" being against Prohibition. His Vice President was Charles Curtis (1860-1936) former Senate Majority Leader from Kansas who was three-eighths Indian, growing up on a Reservation with his maternal grandparents (sort of like Barry) he arose from humble origins to great prominence (only in America). Within 8 months of his Inauguration the Great Depression began and Hoover's efforts (Smoot-Hawley, etc.) to combat it were ineffectual. Everything that Herbert Hoover did in his life was superb until he became President. Herbert and Lou Hoover's graves are way out back and when I went to view them (I always say a few prayers) there was an educated-looking young guy trimming the grass and I ventured to say that it was sort of like the Peter Principle where you advance until you can't do it anymore and he agreed, looking back maybe I shouldn't have been discussing this at their gravesite.

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2011-11-13T13:49:00.000-08:00

I went to Springfield Massachusetts and saw the International Basketball Hall of Fame where a team is prominently featured that my Old Man played on, I must admit to being a mite proud of this, my Sire, welllll, I can crank out good downhome Telepathy 24 hours a day and that's a whole lot more important, I'm the best at Telepathy since the World began. An accomplished Family. On to Buffalo where I saw Niagara Falls for the first time in 50 years if you want to see real falls go to Iguazu the most waterfall in the world (ehhh the Devil's Throat). Buffalo is very old but well kept-up, I thought I'd go to Toronto for a day or 2 the mental instability of the Canadians should concern you. To Ann Arbor where I was inside Michigan Stadium the 3rd largest in the world, seats 115,000 (the Big House) and Crisler Arena next door. The Gerald Ford Presidential Library is at U. Michigan. To Grand Rapids to see the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum which chronicled Ford's 2 years 5 months as President, Gerald was buried behind it last April when I was there and now Betty has joined him. To Iowa City where I was briefly on the Campus of U. of Iowa and then to the suburb of West Branch ($70 RT taxi) to see the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum the 12th and last of the presidential libraries that I've been to that is all of them although they're completing the Bush the Younger's outside of Dallas (I don't go to do any research in the libraries I just see the museums).

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2011-11-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

I had been to Boston before, in Colonial Times there were many hangings on Boston Commons of Pirates, Indians, Religious Dissenters and other rogues. I walked about in the Capitol Building was there before. I went to Breed's Hill in Charlestown where most of the Battle of Bunker Hill took place there's an obelisk and a museum. June 17, 1775 the British assaulted the Americans at their fortified positions on Breed's Hill succeeding in driving the Americans off only after their 3rd attempt and only after the Americans had run out of ammunition. The Americans had only a few casualties whereas the British suffered a third of their soldiers being killed or wounded and it was higher amongst the officers, American General Nathanael Greene commented I'd like to sell them another hill for that price. Previously I had toured the USS Constitution in Boston Harbor on August 19, 1812 the Constitution slugged it out with the British frigate HMS Guerriere whose cannon balls bounced off the sides of the Constitution seeing this the American Sailors cried Huzzah She has Sides of Iron. The Guerriere was totalled and its crew taken prisoner. Little boys called Powder Monkeys carried the gunpowder from down below up to the cannon, Marksmen aimed at the officers and the little boys. I had taken the Boston City Bus to Salem to see Gallows Hill where the convicted witches were hung and the House of Seven Gables. The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is the only one of the presidential libraries that I've been to twice. President Kennedy was very inspirational and although he made a hash of the Bay of Pigs in general he was quite good had he lived there would have been no Vietnam War a tremedous debacle like all these unconstitutional wars we've had since WW II.

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2011-11-06T13:22:00.000-08:00

That upscale woman who did charity work in Harlem and had the shopping cart dropped 4 stories on her reminds me of a storyline from Zap Comics---A Honkey Goes Into the Ghetto and Makes a Fool Out of Himself (I Really Love You People). We all make our own problems. They crucified Ohio State over some guys getting a free sleeve of tattoos this thing at Penn State is a lot worse. I don't get it I went to St. Sebastian's through the 8th Grade and if some priest had said or done something untoward I would have gone home and told my parents and Thunder would have Rolled and I don't mean the next day. Why these horrible things would continue on for years makes no sense to me. Jerry Sandusky was one of the most highly respected coaches in the country. Most men are turned-off by tattoos on a woman, lips of a tattooed woman shall not touch mine. Not only are the roads terrible in San Diego now often their traffic lights malfunction that is you might be stuck on permanent red light, the brains of the people of San Diego are scrambled eggs what are you laughing about. I've walked the track at Daytona and it's hard just to stay upright when you're on the 31 degree turn.

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2011-10-30T14:53:00.000-07:00

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2011-10-30T14:42:00.000-07:00

5th Game

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2011-10-30T13:49:00.000-07:00

I went to Citi Field and saw the Mets play the Astros, it opened in 2009 at a cost of 900 mil and seats 41,800 I'd say they got their money's worth place is plush, across a short land bridge there is Arthur Ashe Stadium which seats 13,000 and where they have the U.S. Open, I'd been to Flushing Meadows for the 1964 World's Fair which I didn't appreciate too young I guess. Luke Fickell has done really well with Ohio State considering the many adversities and they would have beaten Nebraska had Miller not gotten injured. Hopefully after the Season they're not going to do some Search and come up with another high-mileage Toad like John Cooper who they kept around for 13 years as though they were Fools, if the Young Man in Black keeps it up for the rest of the Season give him a 4-year Contract, Youth is Served. I went to Balboa Park and saw the 2 Art Museums, the Air and Space Museum all of which are really good and also went to the San Diego Hall of Champions which honors the many illustrious sports figure from San Diego, hey they've got Don Larson's Jersey which he wore when he pitched a Perfect Game in the 6th Game of the 1956 World Series, when Don was asked if he ever got tired of being asked to talk about it, No, why would I?

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2011-10-30T13:28:00.000-07:00

I've been to NewYork many times since a small child and was there 4 days during Easter Week place was a meat market. I don't want to be insulting but as i walked past the NBC Building I felt like I'd been smacked with a brick due to the Evil flowing from within, I managed to stagger to nearby St. Pat's and went to Mass, it was Easter Thursday and the place was packed afterwards I felt a lot better. I went to the Met one of the 5 best museums in the world, the best by far, far is the Egyptian in Cairo as I've been there 4 times I've probably seen all of King Tut's Treasure as well as the other fabulous antiquities except for the Pharoahs' Mummies it's not air-conditioned. Went to the Guggenheim and the American Museum of Natural History where 85% of the bones are real unlike in most where they're casts. I went to the Brooklyn Museum of Art had never been there exceedingly good of course 2nd only to the Met. Went into the "Times" Building to complain about the high price of their paper and they gave me a free one. I wanted to see the "Lion King" or "Wicked" but one would have had to have gotten tickets a few weeks in advance, saw "La Cage aux Folles" before it closed as it was gay-themed I was reluctant but really liked it, I also saw "The People in the Picture" and liked it, I've seen 7 plays on Broadway all musicals the best was "Oklahoma" oh the dancing.

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2011-10-23T13:34:00.000-07:00

30 years ago this country's roads weren't clogged as they are today, there's no more highways now than then but due to immigration both legal and illegal it's hard to get around this is your faults. I went to the Mohegan Sun I had been to Foxwoods. I went to Hyde Park to see the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and stayed in a motel a quarter mile away. Hyde Park borders Poughkeepsie a nice old well-preserved city which is Bart's hometown, he was unmoved that I had been there. FDR was elected President 4 times no one else was elected more than twice, he was President when we were brought out of the Depression and when WWII was won, Caesar Chavez has a Day in some places FDR has no Day anywhere. The Museum borders the main drag and from there you walk back a ways to Springwood the Roosevelts' Family House passing Franklin's and Eleanor's graves on the right. Franklin was much the product of his steely mother Sara Delano and shared her mug, she lived to see her son paralyzed from the waist down be Inaugurated as President 3 times. Of English, French and Dutch descent Franklin (1882-1945) married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) a distant cousin whose name was this before she was married who served much as his legs during his Presidency making appearances on her husband's behalf, a supporter of Civil Rights she helped arrange for Marian Anderson to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 during WWII Eleanor went to the Pacific to encourage the troops enduring many hardships. Springwood is kept as it was when the President and Eleanor lived there and I felt very honored to be in their house. Churchill and many other dignitaries stayed at Springwood. In 1960 there were many fatalities in Professional Boxing and Eleanor was asked if she thought it should be banned (her uncle was Teddy Roosevelt who was blind in one eye during his 2nd and elected term as President due to his love of boxing) and she replied I've always thought Prizefighting to be rather a good sport.

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2011-10-21T12:16:00.000-07:00

These Ragheads are certainly cruel, I don't see where the U.S. get off injecting itself into every fracas that comes along as though they rule the World. I was once on the Campus of Brigham Young and was in their basketball arena where I saw a girl student washing windows. I said the Mormons believe that the American Indians are descended from the 2 Lost Tribes of Israel anybody who'd believe that......Millions of People believe that just because you don't......I said most People aren't Mormons. Ima Hogg (1882-1975) was the daughter of Texas Governor James "Big Jim" Hogg and heiress to the immense Hogg fortune which increased greatly in the 20's due to oil being discovered on Hogg land. A Philanthropist and Patroness of the Arts she never married and was called "Miss Ima" and known as "The First Lady of Texas." Knowing when to get out of town is one of the most important things one can ever learn.

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2011-10-13T09:43:00.000-07:00

The few of you who have religious convictions don't seem very concerned about going to Hell. Over the past few years thousands of TV Media have been canned and have nothing to lose and everything to gain by telling the Truth for once in their lives, being that dumb is a serious problem. At the gym I go to I have 2 friends who are Veterans of WWII, Bob is an Army Vet and is 84, last week Bob rode his Harley to Searchlight and back by himself 100 miles. Bart is 86 and dropped out of high school at 17 and was in the Navy for 3 years. After the War he went to school on the GI Bill eventually becoming an Eye Ear Nose and Throat M.D. Bart said I went with the flow and the flow was good back then. He said that even the best tests won't tell a doctor what Observation will and that doctors today won't spend that necessary time. Bart said that having Gays out of the Closet in the Military will lead to endless fistfights. You can think of yourself as being Liberal until you ponder the Bohemian things that these guys do with each other, I've never done anything like that. A Gay come-on doesn't bother me but a lot of guys would be angry. I've been to Philadelphia many times it was cold as heck. I went to the very good Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was there that Rocky bolted up the front steps and exulted (...Getting Strong Now...) and they have the spot where Rocky sprang into the air marked with bronze footprints. There I had my picture taken leaping into the air seeing this others emulated including 2 teenage girls jumping simultaneously.

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2011-10-05T12:39:00.000-07:00

The National I.Q. has dropped 7 points over the past 30 years, that explains a lot, in its current incarnation the United States is akin to a glorified Banana Republic, oh to see what it's become compared to what it once was. Hank Williams Jr. seemed to think that he had to apologize for saying that Obama was like Hitler in order to save his career, in our political history wild metaphors have been a tradition as we have had the protected right of Freedom of Speech, what, you can't even talk anymore. All this is your fault.

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2011-10-05T11:59:00.000-07:00

I've always wanted to go to Gettysburg but none of the buses ran there. I slept some on the bus going from D.C. to Harrisburg arriving at 6 A.M. and got a nice rental from "Enterprise" who seem like a good outfit and drove the 38 miles. I was all over the Battlefield, the South was an Armed Camp while in the North there was never any rationing fighting the War almost leisurely. Robert E. Lee realized that the South would lose a war of attrition and that their only hope for the North to sue for Peace would be for a succesful Invasion of the North. Robert Lee is considered to be the best Battlefighter this country has had winning 6 major battles without any defeats and coming off the Rebels' greatest victory 2 months before at Chancellorsville with Lee expected to retreat dividing his army and Stonewall Jackson's Corps suprising and knocking out the Union's llth Corps made up of German-Americans (Stonewall Jackson's Flanking March), such success could never be repeated as soon afterwards Jackson was dead. The Battle of Gettysburg was July 1-3, 1863 with the Union seizing the better vantage points on July l. The North seized the Little Round Top a huge steep hill where a hundred horses' hearts exploded trying to pull the cannon to the top. There's a body of opinion that there were better men in those days compared to today as just to survive one had to be strong and tought, when the horses couldn't do it Ohioans carried the cannon to the top on their shoulders. On July 2 the Union fighting with the desperation that if they failed there all was lost held all of their positions across the Battlefield. On July 3 Robert Lee overconfident that his Army of Northern Virginia would prevail as they had before sent 12,500 men almost a mile against the Union's fortified positions while heavy cannon and rifle fire decimated them in what was known as Longstreet's Assault until 1870 when Longstreet fell out of favor and became known as Pickett's Charge (actually also Pettigrew's Charge). This began with General George Pickett posing the query....General may I advance.....to which General James Longstreet Lee's 2nd in Command gave a glum nod as he saw the futility. ......I can't tell you how funny I feel knowing tomorrow I'll see a big battle. Kind of scared inside but I'm not going to run.....Pvt. James C. David 3rd Michigan on July 2, 1863, he was killed July 3 in the Wheatfield helping repulse Pickett's Charge there were many underage soldiers on both sides Pvt. Davis was 14.

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2011-09-29T09:41:00.000-07:00

Those 3 nerds who were hiking in Iraq cost the U.S. a mil and a half (through Oman), anybody who'd hike in Iraq deserves what they get. 2 of them are talking about breeding I can't wait for the offspring (purebred nerds). Luck to Amanda Knox, the U.S. is trying to dictate the result of this appeal and Italy probably doesn't like it on the other hand she was really doomed before this. Amanda is cute if she beats this I hope she remembers I stuck up for her. On August 8 I sent Guardian Angel Cathedral here in L.V. a check for $200 for 20 Masses at 4 apiece for 5 deceased persons and seeing that the check was never cashed my fears were realized, they never got it. I know how to send a letter and they know how to receive one. Now I have to do a Stop Payment and do this all over with another check and a letter describing these people's character. In my entire life of 64 years this is the first time I've ever had a letter I've sent lost in the mail, the wheels are coming off. 2 days ago I went into "Dave's Specialty Cars" at 3455 Polaris Ave. #4 in L.V. for some electrical work. They don't even do electrical work, Dave has had a large thriving operation for many years turning out the paint and body on beautiful custom jobs, he didn't even charge me for a half-hour job just said to toke the guy who did it. After being around Dave and Rick who has a nearby shop I always feel uplifted like I'd been to Church. You people's difficulty is that you don't seek others who will elevate you instead you associate with individuals who are dragging you down with them. I had a daydream of Glen Rice sitting around with some friends and watching this past Republican Convention and seeing their Vice-Presidential Candidate striding up to accept the Nomination remarking, Why..........

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2011-09-20T10:18:00.000-07:00

I attended a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing during which I heard 3 Senators speak once of whom was the salty Pat Leahy from Vermont who said that the Iraqui and Afghani Wars were a waste of money and now this country was broke and had to borrow from other countries----he said give money to warlords? I attended a Senate Armed Services Full Committee Hearing and heard 6 of them speak so I was close to and heard 9% of them. I would have attended more Senate Hearings except the 2 I wanted were cancelled as they so often are as keeping to a schedule is often beyond them.

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2011-09-20T10:02:00.000-07:00

I've been to Washington D.C. many times climbing to the top of the Washington Monument when I was 4. Always very exciting during my 3 days I saw again the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Spirit of St. Louis, the Wright Flyer flown at Kitty Hawk in 1903 (it was their mother who was mechanically inclined and they consulted with her throughout boyhood, Thomas Edison said my mother made me what I am so you women can have a good effect on things if you put your minds to it), the Hope Diamond and other fabulous gems great artworks and sundry and other captivations. I went to John Ensign's Office yet again and received passes for the House and Senate Galleries. A guard at the x-ray machine at the Senate Gallery addressed me as "Buddy" I said don't call me Buddy I'm not your buddy and he said that he was sorry so that's the end of it but it reflects Public Employees poor opinion of those they supposedly serve. Also in Senator Ensign's Office where they were quite nice I received the Schedule for the House and Senate Hearings for that week. It's not commonly known but the Public can attend about all of these hearings once you get past entrance security you can roam the 3 Senate and 3 House Buildings freely.

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2011-09-18T10:44:00.000-07:00

Only the referee can resume the action it doesn't matter if the boxers touch gloves 20 times, that Joe Cortez was standing there with his mouth open in suprise tells us that he hadn't done this. Had it been Ortiz he would have been disqualified but because it was Mayweather he got the KO, Ortiz was coming on strong and probably would have won. The public doesn't want a rematch, it won't do me any good but were I Ortiz' Camp I'd file a Protest.

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2011-09-13T09:52:00.000-07:00

343 firemen died at the World Trade Center and no officer had to take the fall for sending them into a hopeless situation, there really was about nobody to be rescued once the dust had settled there were hardly any injured as either you were dead or not. You're always hearing that firemen who were killed died while looting wonder if there's anything to that. Some guy in the paper recently said that if Nevada were a country it would be 4th in the World for probability of dying from gunshot only behind South Africa, Columbia and Thailand. Ruslan Salei from Belarus was their only NHL player when they defeated cocky and #l seeded Sweden in 2002 at the Salt Lake City Olympics and I was there to witness one of the greatest upsets in Olympic Hockey History, I'm sorry to say that he was one of those who died recently in that airplane crash in Russia. Akron isn't anything like the hustle and bustle place of my youth, the former Rubber City has lost much of its population and is nothing like the very wealthy city where the many engineers and executives of the Big 4, Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and General Tire and my father worked for all of them, were highly paid and the Rubbers Workers Union was the highest paid American Industrial Union. Poor Blacks from the South and poor Whites from West Virginia came for a much higher standard of living, it was said that in West Virginia schools they taught Readin' Writin' and Route 43 to Akron. No wonder that a popular book in West Virginia libraries was "How to Siphon Gas." I revisited my old stamping grounds but was disappointed that the "Inventors Museum" has been closed for awhile and they had given good prizes to up and coming inventors. I have no idea how Akronites make a living these days certainly a much quieter place.

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2011-09-13T09:39:00.000-07:00

Joe Cortez was recently inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota on the basis of refereeing so many big fights but has been bought off the last few years, eh Joe has huge expenses. Kenny Bayless whose work I've often admired would have been the correct choice to referee Ortiz-Mayweather as he only interferes when he has to and basically lets the fighters fight. I don't mind losing in a gamble but dislike a predestined result and being ripped-off. Most things are fixed in our society but it's become so blatant in boxing that they don't mind having the public know that the fight is fixed. A fine young man being cheated seems to be a big joke to you, in a paraphrase of Sonny Black in "Donnie Brasco".........If I die and see that I'm around the same people then I'll know that I'm in Hell......

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2011-09-11T12:20:00.000-07:00

It looks like "the Fix" is in as Joe Cortez was appointed to referee the Ortiz-Mayweather fight. Cortez is well known for separating the fighters for no reason should the favorite be in trouble. Ortiz close work work this past April gained him the victory over Andre Berto, had Cortez been the referee he would have stopped Ortiz unnecessarily and Berto would have won. When Mayweather fought Ricky Hatton In 2007 Hatton rightfully mentioned Cortez constantly separating the 2 when Hatton was working inside as a main factor in his loss. This past December Cortez' constant separating of Marcos Maidana when he had Amir Khan badly hurt prevented Maidana from scoring a likely knockout of Khan. Ortiz' only hope against Mayweather is his ability to work inside and Cortez won't let him. Obviously they could have appointed an impartial competent referee and should have for this megafight but chose Cortez in order to protect Mayweather from losing. Ortiz' good chance at winning has been stolen from him by evil unscrupulous people.

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2011-09-06T11:08:00.000-07:00

Oh you Rock and Rollers. On Sept. 17 Victor Ortiz fights Floyd Mayweather at Welterweight, 147 lbs., at the MGM in Las Vegas in what's supposed to be the 4th highest grossing pay per view ever. Victor Ortiz is 24 and a half while Floyd is 34 and a half, Victor is an 8-1 underdog but greatly undervalued which is why I bet pretty good on Vic winning, a minimal risk which would pay a whole lot. Abandoned by first his mother at 8 and then his father at 12 Victor and his siblings basically raised thblemselves. Victor has a year and a half at Ventura College and uses very good grammar, he doesn't get into trouble and has recently become a spokesman for Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Victor put his brother through college and does real goody things. In Victor's first fight at 147 as a 4-1 underdog he took the undefeated and highly regarded Andre Berto's WBC Welterweight Title winning an undisputed decision. Victor looks entirely different at 147 compared to 140, looks much bigger and stronger and much more so than Floyd. Emanuel Steward said that Mayweather has never dealt with such a dynamic of a much younger quick and relentless pursuer and finisher who hits hard with both hands. The boyish smile belies a fighter who will eagerly bludgeon a man to the canvas. Floyd is considered by many to be the finest pure boxer of all time using his rolling shoulder defense to block punches and will make an opponent miss with a faint (feint) movement will simply standing there. Floyd must have lost something by this time Victor 5 weeks before the fight did a triathalon at Camp Pendleton swimming 500 yards running a 5 K and cycling 30 K's supposedly finishing 9th out of a thou. In boxing particularly in the major fights the judges have been bought off and if Mayweather is able go stand after 12 he will no doubt be awarded the decision even if Ortiz obviously did better. There's huge money in Mayweather advancing and not so much should it be Ortiz, other than that I'd rate it an even fight that is with fair judging. As it is I don't think Mayweather will be able to entirely escape Ortiz' heavy blows and I see Ortiz stopping Mayweather in the 11th.

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2011-09-06T10:51:00.000-07:00

I feel so badly about that poor man in Colorado who had to cut off his toes to free himself from that overturned truck, must be a tough guy I don't think I could do that. He must not have been wearing steel-toed boots, many guys who do labor have these, they're a mite pricey but well worth it, one place I worked at the company would pay half. 5 years ago in Belgrade there was a real nice girl, Oya, who wore these to fend off Skinheads, multiple uses 'spose. In Cleveland I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where I had been 10 years before, now this is something that everybody likes a lot there's nobody who wouldn't like it. ........The Colored Folks have been singing it and playing it.......nobody paid it no mind until I goosed it up----Elvis

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2011-09-01T09:38:00.000-07:00

This recent proliferation of dirty language in newspapers and magazines is so upsetting to me what is the matter with you. Recently Vladimir Klitschko Rodionovich, Senior Colonel in the Russian Air Force, passed away at 64 from cancer he and his family say came from his instrumental role in the cleanup of Chernobyl, they said that many of his friends involved in the cleanup had already passed away. Colonel and Mrs. Klitschko only had the 2 children Vladimir and Vitali who share the Heavyweight Championship of the World and have for a long time. Certainly sons that he was proud of, look at the children that many people have. You've got to figure that part of the Klitschkos' success are their doctorates in Phys. Ed., they know how to make themselves good. I stayed in Chicago in Greektown for 3 days, there's a 24 hour restaurant there run by nice Greek people, Mr. Greek Gyros, where for a cheap price you get so much good gyros, fries and salad that 2 hungry men couldn't eat it, I think some of you foodsters might be dropping in. I've been to Chicago many times, I've been up the Sears Tower, in the gallery of the Chicago Merc and Chicago Board of Trade, been to Wrigley Field twice, and yet again to the great Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum where amongst other treasures is Sue the most complete T. Rex skeleton, over 90%. They have Sue's skull separate such that you can be a couple feet away. To the Shedd Aquarium the largest indoor aquarium in the world, the Museum of Contemporary Art. I saw the Chicago White Sox play and lose to the Tampa Bay Rays 9-7, it was colder than heck. Chicago only begun in 1833 is a new city which acquired a lot of its growth as the headquarters for the best of the grain reapers, the McCormick Grain Reaper, invented by Cyrus McCormick. McCormick died in 1884 worth 10 mil but his benevolent invention was worth much more to others, from watching the History Channel I learned that his tomb's epitaph reads "He Made Bread Cheap."

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2011-08-30T09:09:00.000-07:00

I told you TV Media that I didn't want you reading my Blogs and I expect you to show some pride for a change and not go where you aren't wanted.

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2011-08-23T11:30:00.000-07:00

You only get a number for the lst 20 and I was only one in the class I was in to place in the State in any subject all 3 years I was there and American History was a required subject everybody had to take it, it wasn't something like 3rd year French which most people don't take. Then I took the nationally administered test for college credit and received a very high score and got 10 quarter hours in American History. Croye gave me a "B" for the year and he couldn't have done as well himself. I did particularly good considering that somebody who was supposed to help me was working against me. I didn't miss days or rebel against him. A year after I graduated it broke on the front page of the "Akron Beacon Journal" that Cyril Jones, the principal, had embezzled 60 thou from the school's Activity Fund, a lot of money in 1966. A few days later I read in the paper that Mr. Jones had died suddenly from a heart attack. I didn't have a thing against Mr. Jones I'm just saying what happened. The place had an aura of evil about it. I've often wished that Firestone High would get hold of me and ask me for a contribution for something it'd be a nice round figure.

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2011-08-23T11:04:00.000-07:00

On the Internet I see where the Class of 1965 at Akron Firestone High lists about a third of the class whose whereabouts they don't know me amongst them, they're probably gearing up for a 50th Reunion in 2015 as this was the lst graduating class. My older brother, Bob, went to his 10th at Buchtel High and seemed to like it but even then there were only 15% which is l out of almost 7. I'm 64 probably a quarter of them are dead, what, a bunch of creaky old people 67 or 68 maybe some in wheelchairs (a lot of people in wheelchairs could rise out of them if they lost 200 pounds some of the others are too lazy to walk). At any rate that high school had an aura of evil about it, sometimes I'll enter a country, not often, and be overwhelmed by the evil, say Indonesia in 1998. Firestone was the best high school academically in Akron either public or private, it was maybe 30% Jewish and a lot of wealthy people sent their children there although most families were upper middle class like mine. In 10th grade for World History they had me in a class of low achievers they tried hard but they weren't very bright. On the State administered test I placed 7th in the school even though I hadn't studied 10 minutes. I thought that's pretty good, next year when I take American History I'll study and maybe I can place lst in the school. My American History teacher was a guy, 28, named Croye, Robert I think, and he liked to make humerous comments to the captive audience, he wasn't a good teacher. When the time came to take the test for placement in the school he wasn't going to let me take it as I didn't have a B in his class and I had to get the counselor's permission to take it. I placed lst in the school out of about 342 as that was the number in my graduating class. 6 weeks later the first 2 in each subject went down to Akron U. to take the test for placement in the State (the 2nd place guy who I beat by a lot went to Michigan and became an M.D. his father was this). I placed 16th in the State. Ohio then and now was the 7th largest state and American History was a required subject everybody had to take it, I placed 16th out of 200 to 300 thousand.

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2011-08-23T11:03:00.000-07:00

TV Media place those peepers elsewhere.

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2011-08-16T09:21:00.000-07:00

You TV Media are Leeches Feeding Off Me Henceforth I Want None of You to Read My Blogs.

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2011-08-09T11:22:00.000-07:00

I just finished Charles Bukowski's "Ham on Rye," his autobiographical novel up to "21," he led a sad life most lives are this. "Barfly" from 1987 with Mickey Rourke was based on Bukowski's drunkenness and brawling. That helicopter that was just shot down killing all those Americans was of course an illustration of this dumb war with some Raghead shooting down the 15 mil helicopter and killing all those guys with his $50 weapon. They have a "Seals Fund" of all things where we can contribute money for those guys' families why would anybody do that as the federal government will supply a huge amount of money and benefits to each of those families. Another huge federal expenditure. Those guys aren't heroes they're suckers you silly twits. A friend of mine was drafted during the Vietnam War and since he drove long-haul they thought he'd be good to be the driver for a 2 Star General. Part of the General's duties were to attend the funerals of soldiers killed in Vietnam and thank their widows for their husband's sacrifice. Cary said that there were a lot of girls who had just gotten 20 thou and a slew, no pun, of benefits who weren't all that upset (life must go on). The General himself said they don't care. This General's main duty was to send soldiers to Vietnam and Cary said that once the General was standing and talking with a full Colonel when all at once the Colonel flung himself down on his knees and said I'm Begging You Not to Send Me to Vietnam. The General said I send 20-year old boys why wouldn't I send you, and walked away. Cary said that the General's girl secretary also saw this. Now had this Colonel been sent to Vietnam he wouldn't have been in any danger just safely in the rear he didn't want his opulent lifestyle Stateside to end. No wonder that thing didn't turn out well. The Korean War started on my 3rd Birthday and we've been at war for about my life all I know is war. The last declared war was WW II hence all these other wars since have been unconstitutional. This one now goes on and on it's already 3 times as long as WW II. War is no glorious thing you people go to war at the drop of a hat you're bloodthirsty. It's the mob mentality I could see a hundred of you chasing some man down the street screaming Kill Him, Kill Him. Barry's going to have a hard time getting reelected what with this bad economy. The roots of this economy are in Bush's reign and Barry has actually done a pretty good job under the circumstance. Certainly he's been a very good example of what a Black Man should aspire to. Many American Black Men laze around on drugs fathering illegitimate children, many of the jobs that Black People get are of their own making, social worker, prison guard. The Heavyweight Championship in Boxing has always been the most prized title in all of Sport and was almost the exclusive domain of American Blacks but for the past decade and this will continue it's been these Eastern Europeans who have dominated with no Black American challenging at all. This is because American Black Men no longer have the will and discipline to attain such lofty goals, it's too bad, Jack Johnson is turning in his grave.

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2011-08-02T10:41:00.000-07:00

Life Insurance, live poor die rich.

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2011-08-02T09:22:00.000-07:00

The only thing my father brought back from WW II was a silver-plated tennis trophy that said "British Officers Club at Oran." Why somebody would want this is beyond me as it even had a dent in it. There hasn't even been a British Officers Club at Oran since that time maybe that was it. I've never been to Algeria strange that my father would be one up on me in that regard. His lifelong friend beginning then was Pat Sullivan who sought out a French schoolteacher to teach him French vowing that he would never live in the U.S. again, after the War Pat was Honeywell's rep in Paris for decades. They were both Mechanical Engineers and Officers in Tank Ordinance, Pat was 5'6" my father was 6'6". Pat never married, the Irish at that time often didn't but would have a brother or sister with 10. A friend of mine, Rick, from the gym told me yesterday that his father had died at "60," Rick's a real nice young fellow, "26." He said his father had had a blue-collar job with the same company for 31 years and that he had lost his job 2 months before he suddenly died (died sitting down). I asked Rick if his Dad had any life insurance and he said he had but that the half-mil policy was through the company and that they had told him and his Mom that the policy went out of effect when his Dad no longer worked there. I said that doesn't sound right, I would think it would continue on for awhile, I told him to check this out with the State Dept. of Insurance and he said he would. People will often try to avoid kicking out a half-mil I'm going to keep on him about this. Rick's all worried that his Mom who's worked for Costco for over 20 years won't have enough for her old age. Rick himself has only been working 20 hours a week or so for the past couple years, tall with a strong lean build he has skills at carpentry and can drive a truck and unload heavy boxes and he quite possibly has good cerebral ability, he's been thinking of joining the Coast Guard for gainful employment sounds like a good idea. Rick and his Dad were real close, pity. It was nice weather in St. Louis and I went to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis built from 1907 to 1987 it's quite impressive. The Gateway Arch was opened in 1967, it's 630 feet high and is the tallest monument in the country. I've been inside it it's quite large inside with all kinds of things and an elevator goes to the top. I went to Forest Park this is the site of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, something was invented there, the hot dog? In Forest Park I went to the very good St. Louis Historical Museum and the very good St. Louis Art Museum, the park is very expansive walk and walk. It's been said that our ballparks are America's cathedrals. On April 5, 2011 I went to beautiful Busch Stadium to see the Cardinals beat the Pirates 3-2 behind Albert Pujol's 2 RBI's with a crowd of 33,666, you get $10 off the ticket price with a AAA card, I've had one forever I know guys who are multimillionaires who are too cheap to belong, the AAA is one of the best things going, I used their maps and travel-books throughout my trip. Wells Fargo recently was fined 85 mil they're a dishonest stable.

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2011-07-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

I just read Dorothy Fuldheim's Wiki as I enjoyed her TV Show for many years back in Ohio. Lived to be "96" and was a spicy old gal, she was very smart and I enjoyed her book reviews. In the "Cleveland Plain Dealer" it had said that in 1930 she had a half-hour interview with Adolf Hitler as she was Jewish I wonder if they had their facts straight, you find out. These dumb wars have bankrupted this country, recently Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Marine 1st Sergeant Leroy Petry who lost a hand acquiring it, for sure Leroy would much rather have his hand than this dumb medal. You people are out to lunch all this is your faults. It was Bush who started this debacle by saying that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction even though it was found to be untrue this debacle rolls on almost 10 years later. A friend of mine who was a Navy Vet noted that Bush's daughters have been of enlistment age throughout these wars so why hasn't he had them go there since he thinks everybody else's children should. He would have said that the better people (them?) had better things to do. My friend then said what their duties might entail (those sailors). You American TV Media have things that you've concealed ffrom the American People, Kelly, me and no doubt other secrets, aren't you worried that in light of Rupert Murdoch that your own time is nigh. Recently I donated blood in Las Vegas for the 26th time and it would have been many more over the past 16 years except I'd often be flagged for high blood pressure. By using the deep breathing from Yoga I now qualify every time. They consider me to have Rare Blood and cut my pint 6 ways and give it to Preemies, the Preemies are never going to do anything for me if you can do something for somebody you should just pitch in and do it. You might not know what I'm talking about.

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2011-07-10T14:25:00.000-07:00

The internet current at the La Jolla Library keeps on wiping out sections of my Blog, I go to a lot of trouble for my little noodniks. I've been to Graceland and to Elvis' birthplace at his parents' 2-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis' twin brother Jesse was stillborn and is buried in Tupelo. About 15 years ago I was on a bus going from Turkey to Damascus, Syria and was talking to a young Syrian guy who spoke good English, his sister didn't speak English at all and was sitting in the seat in front of us, for some reason I brought up Elvis Presley and suddenly she turned around and stared at me. Elvis had a fascination with police work and everyone in his entourage including that doctor who gave him all those pills had to take a course in law enforcement. On July 6, 2001 Elvis' 2nd Cousin Harold Ray Presley the Sheriff of Lee County, Mississippi for those past 8 years along with his deputies was manning a routine police roadblock when a suspect wanted for kidnapping saw the roadblock and fled crashing his car and then fleeing on foot a little past midnight. At 5 A.M. a homeowner called the Sheriff to say that his dogs were barking and Sheriff Presley and deputies responded. Sheriff Presley pushed open a shed door and the suspect began firing, Sheriff Presley pushed away a deputy who by all accounts would have otherwise been shot and was himself struck several times, although mortally wounded the dying Sheriff Presley returned fire killing the suspect.

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2011-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:00

Wells Fargo has yet to return my $213.15 that was fraudently obtained on my ATM Card in the Mexico City Airport and it's been over a year so get off your fat butts and get me my money, you too, Warren. Up through the Ozarks to Kansas City, Missouri, been to Kansas City, Kansas and it doesn't amount to anything interesting. Cold as heck in early April, there's nothing at 12th St. and Vine. During Prohibition there was in effect no prohibition under Mayor Tom "Boss" Pendergast and there were hundreds of 24-Hour Clubs which gave a boost to jazz, there's the very good Jazz Hall of Fame in the same building as the very good Negro Leagues Hall of Fame. Charley Parker known as "Yardbird" or "Bird" grew up 2 blocks from there and was a heroin addict from the time he was "17." Clint Eastwood directed the very good movie "Bird" about 22 years ago inspired by having seen him perform. Bird said if you don't live the life it's not coming out of your horn. Strangely Harry Truman was a product of the totally corrupt Pendergast Machine, known for his probity he paid creditors a hundred cents on the dollar for a bankrupt haberdashery. Union Station has a museum and during WWII half the GI's in the country passed through Kansas City, outside of Union Station on June 17, 1933 4 lawmen were slain in an attempt to free Frank "Jelly" Nash who was being escorted to Leavenworth, Nash himself was gunned down in the confusion this became known as "the Kansas City Massacre." I was very disappointed in the Hallmark doesn't have its tour on Sundays and Mondays. I went to the Kansas City Library to read SI and was told that I'd need a library card so I gave them some jive address and they gave me one, a real nice old building with a deli and salad bar inside the library. I went to SeaWorld San Diego as I've been thinking about it for the past year. They've papered the area with $20 off coupons as their business was off 9.5% in 2010 from the year before, all these other parks in Southern California like Disneyland increased their business. It cost $50 and was well worth whatever they would charge, it was really good. I was at SeaWorld in Aurora outside of Cleveland long ago and had been to SeaWorld San Diego in 1979 when it cost $8 and parking was free instead of $14 today but it's much better now, I was there 9 hours and saw and did everything.

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2011-07-03T13:36:00.000-07:00

I just saw part of "A Few Good Men" on TV, not a very good movie but was well worth the price of admission on the big screen to see the Marines' Dismounted Drill actually the Texas A&M Drill Team. John Calvin Coolidge was the only President born on the 4th of July. Say what you will about the rampant stock speculation during his tenure leading to the Depression, Coolidge during his terms, August 2, 1923 to March 4, 1929, cut the National Debt by a quarter by reducing Federal Expenditures and cutting taxes and also signed the Immigration Act of 1924. Article 14-----All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States. This part of the Constitution obviously would mean that the offspring of illegal aliens as well as any subsequent generations of these offspring would not amongst other things be Citizens of the United States, to maintain these criminals in this country is really bad you've run this country into the ground. Calvin Jr., "16," died in 1924 from an infected tennis blister and Calvin Sr. served his elected term in great sorrow (antibiotics didn't come in until the 30's, the greatest medical breakthrough of the past century or 2C) saying When he died the power and glory of the Presidency went with him. In Little Rock I went to the very good Clinton Presidential Library, I went to the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame which I enjoyed very much, went to the "Arkansas Territorial Restoration" which depicts life in frontier Arkansas and I saw 2 blacksmiths hammering out a Bowie Knife, I had never seen blacksmiths smithing away and found it fascinating. There's many versions of the Bowie Knife, "Arkansas Toothpick," which gained reknown along with Jim Bowie when he used one to kill 2 men in the same fight. I had already been to the Arkansas State Capitol, it was Saturday and it closed at 2 and there wouldn't have been anybody there anyway. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was the lst Commissioner of Baseball, 1920 until he died in office November 25, 1944. His father was in the Union Army in the Civil War and lost a leg at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, 2 spellings, in Georgia in 1864 and named his son born in 1866 for what he had lost. A former Federal Judge, Landis was brought in to rule Baseball with an iron hand after the Black Sox Scandal of 1919 when the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Brought on in large part due their treatment by the owner Charles Comiskey a notorious cheapskate the scene depicted in the movie "Eight Men Out" was accurately portrayed. Star Pitcher Eddie Cicotte comes in after the 1919 Season to speak with Charles Comiskey, Cicotte is wearing a suit and takes off his straw hat in the presence of the seated Comiskey......You promised me a 10 thousand dollar bonus if I won 30 games, I won 29 and you held me out of my last 2 starts for sure I would have won one of those........Eddie, 29 is not 30.......

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2011-06-28T12:58:00.000-07:00

There's a thriving operation in Ramona "Hire-a-Goat" which will send a crew of goats to clear your brush. Saturday was my 64th Birthday and I took my friend, Scott the oddsmaker, to Petco (better to give than receive). I got the best seats in the park one hour before the game but my druthers would have been on the dirt behind first. It was a huge crowd as Jair Jurgens who led the National League in ERA and was tied for first in Wins was pitching for Atlanta, Jurgens improved on both. Dan Uggla hit one about 450 feet especially hard to do as Scott who handicaps baseball said that the sea air at night slows the ball. Afterwards we went to one of the many real nice places in the nearby Gaslamp, I don't drink much but was glad to get out of there without leaving my wallet on the bar. I mentioned Scott before, he's "40" and all-around real good and I could tell that you women weren't very interested in him, that's showing disrespect for me saying that what I say is good is not. This Casey Anthony murder case has the TV Media off the charts. I don't know if she did it or not, people die all the time, so what. Andrea Yates did all 5 of hers and didn't receive such coverage (the oldest was "7" so maybe they drove her nuts). You TV Media are truly weak-minded and there is no hope. In Houston I went to the eclectic and very fine Menil Collection which has an entire building devoted to Cy Twombly. Edwin Twombly is a "83" and created his paintings from anything you might find in your garage, plaster, housepaint, glue, anything. Edwin Twombly was nicknamed Cy by his dad, Edwin Sr., who pitched for the White Sox, I find his art quite compelling but not really my thing, many appreciate it and the best of his fetch a few mil. Near the Menil is the Rothko Chapel which stuns many with its understated. I went to the Bush the Elder Presidential Library at Texas A&M in College Station, the most elaborate of all 12 although he was only a one-termer, it was quite impressive. Carter's doesn't amount to a hill of beans just like his presidency (when he heard that brother Billy had registered as a lobbyist for Libya that was the only time that anyone heard Jimmy take the Lord's Name in vain), he seemed like a nice guy but as one wit put it Nice Guys Don't Make the World Go Round. A&M is really a nice campus and their claim is that they're #1 in the Country for the amount spent to go there compared to Alumni's Lifetime Earnings, that's really good if true. I went inside their football stadium and basketball arena and just happened to walk in while the Texas A&M Women's Team was having their final practice before the NCAA Final 4, strangely I was the only one watching. It was a controlled halfcourt scrimmage with 2 boys on either side, Coach Gary Blair said we can't match Stanford's athleticism so for us to win we're going to have to do things right (they went on to beat Stanford and then Notre Dame for the NCAA National Championship). At the end of practice I came out of the stands and spoke to them for 15 minutes telling them you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you can get what you need, some shrugged and exchanged glances, I'd like to think that I had something to do with their championship season.

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2011-06-21T13:08:00.001-07:00

The streets in San Diego have gotten worse yet and they've had this problem for 17 years. For this length of time the taxpayers have allowed the public employees to spend their tax money to line their own undeserved salaries and pensions instead of using it for infrastructure. The people of San Diego are just dumb and there is no hope. Double tough (a term I borrowed from John L. Smith who for many years has written a very good column for the "Las Vegas Review-Journal") Mormon Sheriff Ralph Lamb was Las Vegas' longest serving sheriff, 1961-1978, and was very instrumental in modernizing the police force as Las Vegas emerged from a city dominated by gangsters into the corporated-owned of today. In December, 1966 Ralph sent an officer to tell Johnny Rosselli, a well-known mobster, to come downtown for a conversation. Rosselli was thought to have previously made an arresting officer elsewhere to disappear. When the officer approached Rosselli at the Desert Inn Rosselli told him he wouldn't do this. Hearing this Ralph Lamb personally went to the D.I. where he found Rosselli sitting at a table with Moe Dalitz the owner of the D.I. and himself a big mobster. Ralph Lamb dragged Rosselli across the table by his necktie and then slapped him down in front of everybody then he arrested him. Rosselli made bail and left town for good, 10 years later he was founding in an oil drum in Miami Bay. On April 15 Ralph Lamb had a birthday and a belated Happy 84th to Ralph. When I was in Dallas I went to their very fine art museum and also the Elm St. where I thoroughly inspected "the grassy knoll." I had already been to the "Sixth Floor Museum" as this was where Lee Harvey Oswald had shot John Kennedy, they have it set up real interestingly even so far as duplicating the boxes Oswald used to shoot from. I had taken a cursory look at the grassy knoll previously but now looked it over really good. It's behind a WPA work from the 30's (with one on the other side of the street as well) and nobody could possibly have shot over it due to its height, the only opportunity to shoot from there would have been around either side a ridiculous concept. They could easily tell from the bullets' trajectory from where they were shot anyway.

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2011-06-19T14:08:00.000-07:00

Carrie Underwood

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2011-06-19T13:31:00.000-07:00

Thursbday I went to the Del Mar Fair which is always 5th or 6th largest in the country. I saw Randy Travis who I've always liked a lot and he gave a rousing hour and 45 minutes. Randy said there was a state trooper who was giving his friend a ride-a-long and he told him if you stay behind a driver long enough he's going to commit a violation and then you can give him a ticket. So the trooper tailed this one driver for 50 miles and the driver always stayed in the middle of the white lines and drove 5 miles under the speed limit. After this 50 miles the trooper told his friend that he was going to stop the driver to tell him how impressed he was with his driving, he pulls the guy over and says I just want to compliment you on how well you drove for such for a long distance and the driver replied when you're drunk you've got to be careful. Randy's "I Told You So" is one of my favorite songs and brought tears to my eyes. Trisha Yearwood had success recently with it but it's Randy's originally and more of a man's song. Back in Ohio they usually called it "Hillbilly" and I've always liked some of those tunes about woe and regret. I really enjoyed communing with all the farm animals, the horses, pigs, sheep and others they're so neat. I did this thing where I paid $30 and they put my little feets in a clear liquid and soaked them for 30 minutes. They put in this electroysis and by the time you're finished the liquid is the color of mud, not just me everybody. Some lady came past and said she had bought the system a year ago ($1300 including shipping) and that her family uses it once a month and that they really like it, I felt a lot better, it pulls the impurities out of your sweat glands and through the bottoms of your feet. All of our bodies are polluted and anything you can do for yours is appreciated. I was told this method has been around for 60 years. I also had a dynamite 30 minute backrub by one of these Oriental guys who are always at the Fair. He was strong and really put his elbows into me. There's 6 of these guys and while I had my face down and was getting this done I heard a teen-age girl say I'm going to have that guy picking his nose give me a massage.

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2011-06-09T10:26:00.000-07:00

Having you people waiting for my offering like begging dogs makes me feel real important. In 2000 Joe Mauer was USA Today's Offensive Player of t he Year as a high school quarterback in St. Paul and in the Spring was USA Today's Baseball Player of the Year for 2001, a rare double. The 1st Player taken in the 2001 Baseball Draft by the Twins Joe has enjoyed a very good career as a catcher and hitter. Prior to the 2011 Season Joe Mauer signed a contract with the Twins for 8 years at $184 million that is $23 mil a year but has been on the Disabled List for most of the 2011 Season due to weak legs. The contract is guaranteed, the Twins are on the hook for that amount whether Mauer is hurt or not, catcher is a very demanding position and once the human body is torn down .....All the King's Horses and All the King's Men......I went from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, New Mexico where I stayed on Central Ave. which is the old Route 66. I went to the U. of New Mexico and went inside "the Pit" which is their basketball arena, it has a sunken floor. I also went inside their football stadium, it doesn't amount to much and used to be worse, 20 years ago it would only seat 20 thou. I then went to Isotopes Stadium where their AAA Baseball plays, a nice park. I went to the history museum, the natural history museum and their art museum, all were very enjoyable. As always when I'm in Albuquerque I went to the Rattlesnake Museum which boasts more species of venomous snakes than any museum in the world. I'm not much into snakes but think they're OK and it's very interesting. I saw a medium-sized rattler swallow for his weekly dinner a dead mouse, seemed to take 20 minutes, I watched at the beginning and at the end of this meal. As long as the mouse is fresh they'll eat it, the mice are killed humanely and frozen. Watching doesn't turn your stomach or anything. On May 5 I saw my Cleveland Indians play the Oakland Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum with the Indians prevailing 4-3 in 12 innings. A beautiful day I could have watched 20 innings even though I had been up for 3 days. Pitching for the A's was Brett Anderson a left-hander and Brett pitched a very good 9 innings, he didn't get the W but also didn't get the L. When I go to a ballgame I always get a program, don't feel like I'm there without one and there were 20 questions relating to preferences and likes that were asked of Brett Anderson. One was which of your teammates would you give your blessing to for dating your sister, Nobody.

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2011-05-31T11:16:00.000-07:00

I saw Bernard Hopkins fight Jean Pascal on the HBO recently, Hopkins was "46" last January. 2 years ago last October Kelly Pavlik was supposed to have put Bernard in the Old Folks Home on life support but Kelly did well by lasting the 12 rounds. Hopkins has spoken of running for elective office should they only overlook his 6 felony convictions and 5 years in prison and maybe they should take him up on it, I'm sure that Hopkins possesses great wisdom and as he is a very vocal supporter of all things Philadelphia I'm quite sure that he'd do better than those currently in office. Hopkins went to prison when he was "17" at was there at a time in his life when many of us were in college maybe that was his college. He's been his own manager for a long time and has brokered many good deals for himself, when he fought De La Hoya Oscar got paid more since he was the bigger star but with Hopkins getting 10 million, as Bernard put it "Since when is 10 million 'only." In particular Philly's mass transit system is bad and slow I'm sure he could bring improvement. Bernard Hopkins is a very impressive guy. I took Boxing in phys. ed.,at Ohio State, no headgear, and got a "B," a very popular course many of the guys took it. And they still offer it, you'll look far and wide to find a college that offers Boxing as you need a qualified instructor, Ohio State then and now the biggest campus in the country could do this. I toured "University of Phoenix" Stadium in Glendale outside of Phoenix where the Arizona Cardinals play and where they have the Fiesta Bowl. A great tour, they grow the field a few feet behind the stadium and cut it up and cart it in for the games. The area where the teams gather before they go on the field is called "the vomitorium." And they say that their Screens are as big as the ones in Arlington in between Fort Worth and Dallas at "Cowboys Stadium" which I also toured. A heck of a great tour, over 2 hours, and they take you everywhere even into the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders dressing room and Jerry Jones' private suite. Jerry Jones hasn't experienced the success he had when Jimmy Johnson was coach, won both his Superbowls, or Barry Switzer, played in and won the Superbowl his first year as an NFL Coach. Jimmy Johnson said I like young players, they don't get hurt and they don't have a lot of opinions, I'm not interested in a lot of opinions. Those seats that those people were denied for this past Superbowl were the worst ones in there. When Woody Hayes was at Ohio State for 26 years he had very good success and not only did he not receive NCAA penalties for committing violations nobody ever accused him of committing them. It looks bad for Ohio State, how well has SMU done since Eric Dickerson was there and this thing is snowballing. Ohio State year in and year out spends the most on their athletic programs and there's no excuse for cheating. I've always rooted for their sports teams but thought their academia was weak, when I was there you needed 196 credits to graduate the last I heard it was down to 181. I've often thought of suing Ohio State for a refund of my tuition but guess I'll let sleeping dogs lie. ".....When the walls come tumbling down, when the walls come tumbling, tumbling.........."

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2011-05-24T10:38:00.000-07:00

As late as 1964 the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team had 4 Goodyear Wingfoots, a third of the team, one of those was Larry Brown, yes that......When I was a child I took piano lessons for 4 or 5 years, I'm very well-bred. From Phoenix I went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, a very good tourist city. I went into both houses of legislature in the Capitol Building and also the Governor's Office, I asked that the Governor come out and greet me but was told that she was busy. Santa Fe is full of interesting museums such as the "Georgia O'Keeffe," which displays over a hundred of her works (lived in Santa Fe for the last part of her long life). The Palace of the Governors is the oldest public building in the U.S. and is now a museum, there's the Museum of International Folk Art which consists of over 10 thousand handmade dolls and toys, toy houses, the Museum of American Indian Arts and Culture and the American Indian Arts Museum. Santa Fe has the "Loretto Chapel" with its spiral staircase and was the first Gothic Building west of the Mississippi. The Mission of San Miguel is one of the oldest churches in the country and has the oldest bell in the country. Santa Fe is up 6500 to 7000 feet and you can feel the altitude (not as bad as La Paz, Bolivia where I've been whose airport is at 13 thousand feet). When I was in Kansas City, Mo., I counseled amongst the local Negroes and inquired whether Arthur Bryant's truly had the best barbecue in the country. I was told by many that Gates and Sons was as good or maybe even better, so of course I went to both. So which did I prefer, "Chef Edwards Barbecue" in Oakland is easily the best. Chef Edwards is a real kindly older man who enjoys making people happy with his delicious 'cue and he and his helpers prepare the most delicious openfaced sandwich which has a prodigious amount of barbecued pork, this is true culinary heaven, ate there twice wish I was eating there now, maybe Barry would like to stop in as his picture is on the wall.

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2011-05-21T11:10:00.000-07:00

I wonder if that French International Monetary Fund guy is going to explain the righteousness of his actions by saying, She Was a Woo-Mon. As far as Arnold goes he did take over California's governorship during a very trying time, for California that's all the time, as a friend and myself said when he first assumed leadership, who would want to rule it. They gunned down an unarmed man and wouldn't even give his body to his mother, even Caiaphas and the Romans would do this. The U.S. would be flush with cash if they didn't have these illegal aliens and their offspring, you've run this country into the ground, be proud of it. The only TV show I made it a point to watch was "America's Most Wanted," just a couple days ago they picked somebody up on the Strip who was profiled in February. My older brother, Bob, referred to John Walsh as a "great man," it's a real pity, for sure a lot of people liked that show I guess not enough. From Las Vegas on Sunday, March 20 I journeyed to Phoenix on Greyhound. I went to the Phoenix Art Museum, I've been to the Heard Museum and seen all that Indian stuff, I went to the old State Capitol Building which is now a museum and of course that was quite good. And then I sat in both the House and Senate while they were in session. I sat in the Senate when a measure that had passed the House was being voted on and passed prompting a Senator to arise and appraise the proceedings to the passage of this crisp, new law as "......Frivolous and a waste of our time......"

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2011-05-17T10:23:00.000-07:00

I came back a week and a half ago from a 7-week bus trip, I recently recovered as by the time I got back I was on the verge of a physical breakdown due to the hectic pace. I bought a 60ba-day Greyhound "Discovery Pass" for $539 and it was good on all the other buslines, about 15, in the U.S. and Cananda. I hadn't done this for 8 years and was dubious as the buslines have cut the number of buses by about twothirds since then but it turned out real great. I was at 6 major-league baseball games around the country in 6 stadiums that I had never seen a game in, I was in 5 Presidential Libraries 4 of which I hadn't been to so now I've been in all 12 of the Presidential Libraries, most of you TV bumpkins have never been to one but you walk around with your chests stuck out. A teacher of mine once said, isn't it suprising how often ignorance takes a pride in itself. I was at 2 musicals on Broadway and the International Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. and much more. I was expecting the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots to be prominently displayed and they were and for the years that my father played for them. A team that my Old Man played for in the International Basketball Hall of Fame. Also in there were the Harlem Renaissance (the Rens), didn't these 2 have a dust-up. At 5 A.M. on Easter Sunday I came in on Peter Pan to the Peace Bridge to cross into Canada, that is April 24, 2011. I've been all over Canada from Vancouver to Halifax and about everywhere in between and thought it was ok but nothing too great. I hadn't been to Canada in 8 years and thought I'd go to Toronto for a day or 2. I had my U.S. Passport and showed it to the Candadian Agent, #15380, some girl, and she asked me if I planned on living in Canada illegally. Why no, I just want to go to Toronto for a day or 2. She turned me over to Agent #14091, a superior who seemed very sleep-deprived as though he hadn't been to bed for at least 2 days, and he took me into an office where he concluded both verbally and in writing.....He has no ties to the U.S. (I was born an American Citizen). This guy fingered my Mastercard and 2 Debit Cards as well as $1800 in American Express Travelers Checks, he then left the office and I cracked the door open a couple feet as it was stuffy and this guy came running back in angrily saying that I was being watched on camera. This guy called a taxi service who sent a cabbie to whom this Canadian Agent gave my U.S. Passport and a paper to be given to the American Border Agents about a half mile away (entrusting somebody's passport to some taxidriver was novel to me). This taxidriver dropped me off at the American Border Agents Office where I was rudely received. I was told (this was about 6 A.M. on April 24)......This isn't a bus station......I was told to leave quickly and was urged to walk miles in the dark back to Buffalo carrying a heavy bag, I was told that it was "quite safe." The alternative I was told was to take a taxi which they would summon and this sounded better. Had the Americans let me take one of the buses that were stopping at their station I wouldn't have had to pay 24.80 for the taxi. What it is is that the Public Employees look down on the Public regarding as a cow to be milked and suckers for allowing themselves to be treated that way, the Canadian Border Officers were mentally unstable but the American Border Officers were just no good.

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2011-03-15T11:01:00.000-07:00

On the "History Channel" today I heard economists talking about the doom almost upon us due to overpopulation, lack of water, etc., take a peep. You remind me of a bunch of monkeys. At these 5-minute stop lights they have in Las Vegas and San Diego I often turn off my engine as it saves on fuel, wear and tear and lessens pollution, they should run everybody through in half that time. These metal studs they have on the roads are bad for your car, I would think anybody could plainly see the white and yellow lines, maybe they're for blind drivers like Braille. Hermann Wilhelm Goering (1893 to October 15, 1945) as a German fighter pilot in WW I had 22 confirmed kills and won the coveted "Blue Max" and was the last commander of the squadron once led by Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron." I had thought they had made him a baron for doing good, he was one. Manfred died after being shot down by a camaflouged Australian machine gun battery as he was going for his 81st kill, a British officer ran up saying do you know who that was?.....a Fritz......That was the famous Baron von Richthofen. Manfred was "25," war is a young man's game. Von Clausewitz the acclaimed Prussian military stategist said that the best soldiers are 18-26. Anyway, Goering joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and rose quickly due to Hitler's recognition of his organizational skills and that he was a war hero. Wounded in the groin in the "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich on Nov. 9, 1923 he became a morphine addict to deal with the pain and remained such until forced to go Cold Turkey after WW II had ended. After Hitler became Chancellor in January, 1933 Goering also became more important and in 1935 was made Commander of the Luftwaffe and in 1940 was promoted by Hitler to Reichsmarchall and 2nd only to Hitler and designated as Hitler's successor. By 1942 Goering's stature had been greatly reduced due to the Luftwaffe's failures although he remained Hitler's 2nd. As the war was ending Goering turned himself in to the Americans on May 9, 1945 and the American Officers and Goering spent the night in drinking, eating and making merry, upon hearing this Eisenhower was furious. Tried at Nuremberg as one of 22 defendants (Nov. 21, 1945 to Oct. 1, 1946) Goering made a good defense and was able to poke holes in the prosecutions' assertions and won many over with his jocular personality. But he couldn't overcome that he had been head of he slave labor program and that he had signed orders that sent Jews and others to their deaths. Goering was 1 of 12 sentenced to hang. Robert Taft, the son of Pres. and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and later to be Senate Majority Leader known as "Mr. Republican," said that this was "Victor's Justice," and that these trials and punishments had no basis in international law. I first read of this in high school when I read John Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage." And of course he was right, probably all 12 got what they deserved but there was no legal basis for it, basically it was a lynch mob. Goering asked to be shot due to his military rank and the Americans said he should hang like a criminal. Jack G. Wheelis was an American Lieutenant in charge of the baggage room and became friends with Goering. They were both extroverted and liked to hunt. On Oct. 15, 1945 the 12 condemned were being led out to be hung except for Goering who had ingested cyanide, it was widely thought that Wheelis had gotten them from the baggage room for Goering. If he was his friend then this was what he had to do. A lot of big people were mad at Wheelis over this and he didn't live that long. Goering's suicide 2 hours before he was to be hung was a black eye for the victors as he was the Star, the only one remaining of Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler. Goering and the others had been tried under Ex Post Facto laws and considering Goering's dire position he made the best of things by getting the last laugh on those who would hang him. Master Sergeant John C. Woods made a hash of the hangings with the 11 hung having the trap door smack them in the face and dangling for great lengths of time and it's thought that he was possibly a sadist. At any rate Sergeant Woods died from being accidentally electrocuted in the Marshall Islands in 1950 although it's too much for us to believe that he died while testing an electric chair.

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2011-02-24T10:33:00.000-08:00

All of the TV Media have known for the past 3 years that Kelly Ripa is gay and have kept this to themselves, I despise every one of your bought-off asses and don't want you to think otherwise. What other "secrets" are you keeping from the American people? Recently the rock-blues duo "The Black Keys" won 3 grammys. Both Dan Auerbach, the singer-guitarist and Patrick Carney, the drummer-arranger went to Akron Firestone and I went to school with Carney's Dad and Aunt, she was the best-looking I've ever seen. Monday I saw the movie on Amanda Knox and the hour on it afterwards. I'd have to agree with the retired FBI agent that it was that Ivory Coast guy alone who cut her throat and inflicted the other wounds and that Knox and her boyfriend, Sollecito are innocent. But don't be expecting the Italians to change the verdict after their almost year-long trial, the Italians aren't going to let us tell them what to do. Indeed, just because somebody has a quirky reaction to somebody's murder doesn't mean they did it (kissing, splits, cartwheels) or that they tried to implicate Lumumba. On February 17, 2003 Hassan Mustafa Osama Nadr was kidnapped in Milan by the CIA and renditioned, flown to Egypt for torture. Nadr had legal status in Italy and this was very illegal under any laws you can think of. In December 2005 Italian Courts issued European arrest warrants for 22 CIA agents. On November 4, 2009 an Italian court convicted 22 CIA agents and a U.S. Air Force Colonel in absentia of kidnapping and other crimes and should any of these swine show their low-born faces ever again in Italy just see what happens. The Italians are in no mood to have the U.S. pontificate to them about anything especially to do with legality. All of this goes against Knox and I'm sorry for her, were I Knox I wouldn't be making any immediate plans in Seattle. The best quality one can have is good luck and most people don't. The Mossad kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 11, 1960 as he walked home from his job as a foreman at the Mercedes Benz factory as he had become an Argentine citizen under the name of Ricardo Klement. Not finishing high school Eichmann had good work experience even as a manager for Standard Oil before joining the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) where he rose to Lt. Colonel eventually being appointed to the deportation of Jews to Poland and Hungary for extermination. After the war he escaped the Allies by using an aliass and lived in Austria and Italy for 5 years before taking a ship to Argentina in 1950. After Eichmann's kidnapping Jews were persecuted all over South America a bad trade-off for the feeling of revenge for one hung guy. The Mossad could have also kidnapped Joseph Mengele as he lived for years in Paraguay under the name, Jose Mengele, under the protection of the dictator Alfredo Stroessner. As it was they wisely left him alone and he died after many years in Brazil, and they knew where he was, from a stroke after a life of fear that the Jews were going to get him. I've been to Auschwitz and Birkenau a mile and a half away and it was at the entrance that Mengele waited and with outstretched arms indicated (left) who was to immediately die and (right) which group was to live for at least a while. With his medical whites on he appeared in this pose as the Angel of Death. From a high-class Catholic family then and now Mengele farm machinery. Like all the other Nazis except Hoss (umlaut over the o) Mengele maintained that he had done nothing wrong, Hoss was the commandant at Auschwitz and before he was hung there he said that he was sorry. I was in a big basement at Auschwitz where they first used the Cyclon B gas on 600 Russian prisoners and I was all by myself down there and thinking about these guys clawing the walls gave me the creeps. If I'm a normal human being what are you?

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2011-02-10T11:23:00.000-08:00

True Believer.

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2011-02-10T10:42:00.000-08:00

Most Mexican women in this country look like they jumped the border so that they could eat. Nothing is as dangerous as a Mexican with a weedblower, they blow dirt all over your car they blow dirt all over you. This country is in good shape and getting better. A lot on the "History Channel" is real good but then they bog down by spending a lot of time on people driving trucks, people arguing over which tree to cut, UFO's (how interesting could it be if after all these years there's no good evidence there are any, .....Take us to your leader......) and other boring things. When I was a grad student at Kent State I had a friend from New York who had been his high school newspaper's sports editor near the Catskills when Joe Frazier was preparing for one of his big fights. He called Joe's Camp and told them that he'd like to interview Joe, his call went to a couple more people and then Bill heard "Joe Here." Bill was invited up to Joe's Camp (a smallish heavyweight whose bobbing and weaving style and relentless pressure ever forward with his best weapon being the trademark of a Philadelphia fighter, a left hook thrown from the hip and with Joe often only from a foot away, when he fought George Chuvalo who never was knocked down in 97 pro fights George thought at one point that his eye had knocked out, well, on to pleasanter things). Bill had a half-hour interview with Joe and his trainer, Yank Durham, in which he mainly asked about whether there should be high school boxing teams and he won a state award for this, afterwards they gave Bill lunch. You like that story. It's been one of my longtime goals to attend a boxing card at the Blue Horizon, as I understand it the doors suddenly open and everybody rushes in to get the best seats. My older brother, Bob, for a many years has been one of the main people in the country for high school wrestling. Bob has often been the director of the Ironman Invitational in Ohio and the "Tournament of Champions' in Reno, the 2 best high school tournaments in the country as well being a writer. He's interested in the sport a lot more than I am, a labor of love he does all this for little or nothing. Several years ago Bob was the writer for "USA Today" in which he picked a weekly top 10 in the country and it was he alone who selected the final rankings with a mythical high school National Champion. That year Lakewood St. Edward's was considered to be the best team in the country. In a Cleveland suburb, Bob lived near there and was" always up there, an extroverted type anyway he knew everybody there real well. But St. Edward's didn't do as well in the state tournament as they were supposed to with one of the kids commenting in "The Cleveland Plain Dealer," "I suppose Preusse will hold it against us." Yeah he did Bob placed St. Ed's at 3rd in the final rankings.

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2011-01-20T10:27:00.000-08:00

Having you people wait like begging dogs for my next offering makes me feel real important. In December there was a spate of shark attacks off the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh with people getting their arms and legs bitten off and one lady was killed, the governor of South Sinai suggested that this might be the work of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, that they could have put the deadly shark in there to mess up Egyptian tourism. Why the British are making such a big deal about 2 people who've been shacking up for 7 years finally getting married is beyond me. In 1649 they beheaded Charles I, that's their tradiion. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a poor Scottish immigrant who became with Rockefeller the richest men in the world. Coming to Pennsylvania with his family in 1848 and with little education the little Scot found that he had a talent for making money. A deeply religious Presbyterian, Carnegie wrote "Wealth" or more often called "The Gospel of Wealth" in 1889 in which he stated that "No idol is more debasing than the worship of money" During his lifetime Carnegie gave away 90% of his money saying that the man who dies rich dies disgraced, that wealth should be used for the betterment of all mankind. 2 years ago I was in a Carnegie Library in San Fernando, Trinidad. Carnegie was a benefactor of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama which was headed by Booker T. Washington. He praised the high estate taxes in England and during the 1880's bought many newspapers in the British Isles in which he espoused the abolition of the monarchy. He stated that any man's reward could only be in Heaven. This thing that Warren and Bill Gates have been talking about is nothing new in fact previously there were many more good men than exist today. I had 10 thou apiece on 2 of the bowl games, I like excitement.

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2011-01-08T10:38:00.000-08:00

I've been feeling a lot better since I've been avoiding the TV Media and their turpitude and wish I had done this previously. Recently I donated $500 to the ASPCA and I expect each of you to do this as well, anyone who doesn't will be regarded by myself as being cheap. There's been some entertaining bowl games although there was a curious outcome to the Sugar Bowl. Around Christmas marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Charles "Sonny" Liston who had held the unified Heavyweight Championship from September, 1962 until February, 1964 taking it from Floyd Patterson with a lst round knockout and also knocking Patterson out in the lst round in the rematch. Born into abject poverty in Arkansas as the 24th of Tobey Liston's 25 children by 2 wives Sonny had no shoes and little to eat later saying all I ever had was a lot of brothers and sisters. He didn't know the date of his birth. Tobey would often tie Sonny down and whip him, the source of the large scars on his back. Escaping his father's brutality Sonny joined his mother in St. Louis, began armed robberies to support himself and was sentenced to the Missouri State Pentitentuary in Jefferson City at possibly "15" for a term of 8 years. Coming under the guidance of a priest ho recognized his boxing potential Sonny began his boxing career. Due to the priest's influence Sonny was paroled after only 2 years. Sonny never regarded his stay in prison as being a bad thing as he pointed out that he got 3 meals a day, many boxers began in prison benefitting from the supervised atmosphere and lights out at 10. In 1953 Sonny Liston won the National AAU even though his amateur career was less than a year. A few years later his contract was bought by the infamous Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo. There's been many who have imitated the "Sonny Liston Glare" which Liston (84 inch reach, fists 15 inches around) would fix on his opponent as they were receiving the referee's instruction but none have ever done nearly as well, it was said that guys would be bleeding in their corner before the lst bell. After winning the Heavyweight Championship Sonny returned in triumph to the Missouri State Penitentuary where the elated Sonny had a haircut and ate lunch with the inmates (the inmates didn't seem as cheerful probably because Sonny would be able to leave afterwards and they weren't). After losing the Heavyweight Championship and rematch to Cassius Clay Sonny moved to Las Vegas where he continued his boxing career but he never reached those heights again. Sonny began to supplement his income by dealing with very shady characters. Before Christmas, 1970 his wife Geraldine went to see relatives in St. Louis, upon her return she found Sonny dead in their house. Sonny was so ripe that it was hard to determine the cause of his death but it was widely felt that he had been done in for running afoul of the rough crowd he ran with. Like a lot of boxing fans I've been to the grave of Sonny Liston here in Las Vegas where I placed a red rose and a white rose. Sonny was known to show a very good side and was well-liked by many. Nobody knew when he was born nobody when he died, a psychologist could make much of his going by the sobriquet of "Sonny" in this most punishing of activities.

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2010-12-18T10:11:00.000-08:00

I voted for John Edwards unfortunately he proved to be a faceman. I don't know why Elizabeth Edwards would be giving birth at an old age, they weren't even related to her. I'm pleased as punch about Michael Vick's success, he paid in triplicate. In SI they say that Andy Reid was the ideal coach for Vick to play for considering that both of Reid's sons are currently in prison. Sharron Angle raised 26.9 million for her campaign and Harry Reid raised 22.5 for his, a total of almost 50 million, as many as disliked Reid one would have thought that Angle would have finished him off but the dingbat ran an inept campaign with an incompetent campaign manager who spent most of his time in Missouri where he lived. I didn't watch Sarah Palin shoot that poor caribou, that caribou meant something to somebody, it's like Bambi's Mother. Palin shot and missed the first 4 times and any animal is going to take off running at the report of the first loud gunshot, that this caribou didn't would indicate that it had been drugged. I watched Akron U beat Louisville 1-0 for the Men's NCAA Soccer Championship, the first NCAA title that Akron U has won in anything. I never went there but my father was Akron U's leading scorer and MVP in Basketball in 1934 on a team that only lost one game, Congratulations to Akron U. Last month I went again to the Getty, the Norton Simon in Pasadena and the LA County Art Museum, nobody likes art more than me. Just down Wilshire Blvd. and easy walking distance from the LA County Art Museum are the La Brea Tarpits in Hancock Park and the accompanying George C. Page Museum. Beginning 38,000 years ago the La Brea Tarpits began to trap animals deceived by the water on top of the tarpits not knowing that they'd be caught in the tar beneath. I was there once before long ago and am sorry that I hadn't returned until recently. Tarpit #91 is the only one still being excavated, you can look at that and all the others and then go inside the Page Museum established in 1977. Inside you can see the remains of animals, mostly predators, lured to their doom so long ago, the California Sabre-Tooth (not called the Sabred-Toothed Tiger), Harlan's Ground Sloth, the American Mostodon, Imperial and Columbian Mammoths, Bison, Horses (nobody knows why they died out 10 thousand years ago, seemed like conditions were optimum), the American Camel, the Giant Short-Faced Bear, the American Lion (30% larger than the African Lion, dying out also 10 thousand years ago, I didn't know there was an American Lion), and others. All of this is beyond fascinating and yours to see for a few dollars. A year ago last spring I walked across Pitch Lake in Trinidad where all of the World's asphalt comes from, such things are Very Exciting to me. I urge you to develop healthy interests.

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2010-12-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

Since I graduated from high school in 1965 this country has been involved in frivolous warfare half the time, there's very seldom a good reason to be at war and it should be a very rare occurrence. Why are you so self-destructive? Las Vegas has a discount moviehouse that I often go to and it does tremedous business. It's the closest to me and lots of others and it only costs 1.50 at any time to see a movie on one of its six screens. I like to go out and do things instead of sitting around hunched over in my domicile and many others also feel this way, you could take your family of 5 there for 7.50. It only costs maybe 20% to show a movie that's been out for 3 or 3 months and they make their money on concessions, even with a regular moviehouse they make half their money on concessions. "Tropicana Cinemas" at Trop and Pecos has become the place to be seen. I was at Petco a few years ago and in the restroom when they announced that somebody had died, I turned to the kid next to me and said who died? Rod Beck (1968 to 2007) was a major league pitcher from 1991 to 2004 and for a few years in the early and mid 90's was considered to be the best relief pitcher in baseball as a closer for the San Francisco Giants, I saw him pitch then. An old school mindset, Rod Beck was always popular with his teammates and enjoyed talking the game for hours while indulging in his appetite for beer, food and cigarettes. Always with a big gut other pitchers copied his mannerism of glaring at the batter with his right arm dangling. Rod pitched also for the Cubs, Red Sox and was out for the 2002 season due to Tommy John surgery. When the Padres' Trevor Hoffman was injured in 2003 the Padres were desperate for a closer and signed Rod Beck even though as Jake Peavy put it "He was running on the fumes." It's with good reason that the Padres had fond memories of Rod Beck as he went out and got them 20 saves in 20 chances that year pitching only with the confidence that he could get the batter out. Beset by increasing drug use the Padres let Rod Beck go in August, 2004. With his physical skills leaving him and baseball no longer in his life Rod Beck was found on June 23, 2007 dead in his house in Phoenix from a cocaine overdose, he was "38." As a former teammate put it "He couldn't shake the demons," with a career of 286 saves Rod Beck will eventually be considered for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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2010-11-21T12:08:00.000-08:00

My Grandfather had a cartoon above his workbench in the basement of 2 transients sitting on a park bench with one saying to the other, I was always the low bidder. The Clark County Library District takes in Las Vegas and extends all the way 90 miles south to include Laughlin and all municipalities in between. Recently they decided to cancel their Sunday subscription for the "Akron Beacon Journal" at the Flamingo Library, I pointed out to them that this only saves maybe $70 a year for subscription and mailing and that this is much less than any one of the Clark County Library District's employees makes in one day. 4 months ago I was at the Huntington and saw Charles Bukowski's typed rough draft of "Ham on Rye," when I asked to check it out of the Flamingo Library I was told that this famous book wasn't anywhere to be found in the entire Clark County Library District. What union do the Clark County Library District employees belong to, the Teamsters (if it moves unionize it).

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2010-11-07T14:09:00.000-08:00

I recently read all my blogs, for the past 2 years, it took 7 hours. The Browns thrashed the Patriots 34-14, well I'll be a monkey's uncle.

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2010-11-07T13:59:00.000-08:00

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2010-11-07T13:33:00.000-08:00

Edgar Renteria on the game-winning and World Series ending home run that he hit off Cliff Lee's cut fastball, the ball no cut. It was a hundred degrees in San Diego on November 4. The Nazis' scientists were much better than ours, had they access to the vast resources that ours did they would have produced the A-Bomb first (the Nazis nuke Akron to show us they mean business). The United States would have never used the A-Bomb on the Germans as they were White and this country's largest immigrant group. I just saw "Inherit the Wind," on TV, that was some movie and based very closely to fact. A recent survey said that half the people in Kansas don't believe in evolution. I've been to Kansas, half the men talk like Gomer Pyle. The American people twice selected Bush to be President, well I'll be a monkey's unkle. The Parsis in India are followers of Zoroasterism, a monotheistic religion beginning in the 6th Century B.C., when I was in India the last time I was constantly buying bottles of cheap gin and whiskey to use as disinfectant as I couldn't find medicinal alcohol and when I was in Bombay (Mumbai) I bought a bottle of gin at a liquor store owned by Parsis. I'm sure that I'm not the only one you've known who's used gin to wash his feet (bathtub gin). To the Parsis earth, wind and fire are sacred and they lay their dead out for the birds of prey to consume at the Towers of Silence (the Gardens of Silence) in Bombay, I drove past them. It's said that if the birds take a man's eyes first then he was a very good man.

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2010-10-31T13:33:00.000-07:00

Halloween is one of our best customs, hope I get a lot of trick-or-treaters I give a good bar. Going down the road is San Diego is like winding your way through an obstacle course what with all the holes and ruts and it's been like this or worse for 15 years. The drug-addled people of San Diego and their don't give a hoot attitude, what are you laughing about. Friday night I saw Helix High play Valhalla at Helix in LaMesa a San Diego suburb. Valhalla did real good until they caved-in leading 7-6 at halftime having intercepted a pass and gone 50 yards for a touch and extra, blocking Helix's extra point attempt and then blocking Helix's short field goal attempt just before halftime. Helix won 33-7 and are now 8-0. Their nickname is "the Highlanders" and they play up this theme totally, I heard bagpipe music in the distance and knew it was a recording but no, maybe 25 members of their band were wearing tartans and kilts and some were playing bagpipes. Football-rich Helix, a few years ago Alex Smith from Helix, the principal's son was the 1st player taken in the NFL draft and the next year Reggie Bush was the 2nd player taken. Bill Wothalton is from Helix and San Diego County is historically basketball-poor, when John Wooden's assistant told him about Walton Wooden said that there couldn't possibly be a player as good as the one he was speaking of in San Diego. Bruce Walton played for UCLA and the Cowboys. Real treat to watch these kids. About all of Helix's good players are underclassmen. Oh, Dennis Hopper was Class of '54 and voted Most Likely to Succeed and possibly lived up to it. In Nevada Sharron (double r) Angle is competing for Harry Reid's Seat in the Senate, both amassed huge warchests with most of Angle's money coming from out of state Republicans. Nobody in Nevada cares a hoot about Sharron Angle, a dingbat, any vote for Angle is a vote against Reid as many are tired of him, both have fanged arteries and the blood's shooting all over---I think Angle. So far as this Gays in the Military thing I've been thinking back and I can recall 4 that I've known who were in the Army, 2 for 8 years (they don't mind being around a lot of men) and one of the others had his leg blown off in Vietnam by a "Bouncing Betty." Just because they do this in Europe isn't a good enough reason as Europe is in worse shape than this country, it might be awkward to be in the showers with somebody like that for sure none of these 4 acted Gay while they were in. Bill Walton's name was messed up by the computer current, I'm at the library.

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2010-10-26T13:47:00.000-07:00

I'm so tired of you smug bastards, ignorance often takes a pride in itself. On Sunday I saw the Chargers play the Patriots. The easiest and fastest way to get to Qualcomm is to go to a bus-stop, get on a bus that'll take you to a trolley-stop, once on the bus buy a 1-day pass for $5 that's good for all the buses and trolleys. San Diego has 56 miles of trolley tracks and I've taken it all the way to the border. If you drive it takes an hour after you've gotten close to the stadium until you're in a parking spot and an hour to get out, real suprising as the last I've heard Qualcomm has the 2nd largest parking lot in the country. Parking is $25, at Foxboro it's $40 I was told. They crammed 68,863 people in that stadium, poor Chargers. Recently I went to Balboa Park to the San Diego Museum of Art to see lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Latrec. Next to the it is the Timken Museum with the Putnam Collection. The Putnams were 3 sisters who never married, they inherited a fortune and spent it on the collecting of art. The Timken, free, is considered to be one of the 10 best small museums in the world. It's a permanent collection and say their Rembrandt of St. Bartholomew is considered to be the best of the many Rembrandts in S. California. Henri de Toulouse-Latrec (1864 to 1901) was the first born of a Count and Contessa who were lst cousins. Henri first broke a leg at "13" and the other at "14." His disease stunted his growth and he became artistic possibly because he couldn't do vigorous activities. He often used prostitutes as his models and associated with many people that his aristocratic parents disapproved of. He hung around the Moulin Rouge and enjoyed nightlife to a great extent, supposedly the creator of the cocktail "Earthquake." Like van Gogh who he knew Henri was greatly influenced by Japanese woodcuts. de Toulouse-Latrec had much success with women but unfortunately acquired syphilis and ecame an alcoholic. One of the women he painted and admired was Louise Weber who was the creator of French Can Can and known as "La Goulue," the Glutton. A great painter and lithographer his paintings have been sold for as much as 22.4 million dollars. Succumbing to his diseases at "36," Henri's last words were in reference to his father, "Le vieux con"---the old fool.

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2010-10-17T13:50:00.000-07:00

"The Social Network" was good, "Secretariat" was good and the labored breathing of this equine athlete was a great effect. Secretariat's wins at the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in 1973 are still the Track Records. When Secretariat died in 1989 he was autopsied and his heart was much larger at 22 pounds than any horse heart ever recorded. If you look at a picture of Secretariat it looked like he had gone to the gym and lifted weights. I didn't know that Ron Turcotte had been in a wheelchair since 1978. The last time I was in Australia was 1999 and I went to their capitol, Canberra, population 345,000 which was a compromise in 1908 between Melbourne and Sydney and sort of in between them. I sat in the gallery of their Parliament and toured their museums and War Memorial, like all of Australia pretty exciting stuff. I then went to Tasmania 140 miles south of Austraia and seperated by the Bass Strait. A population of only a half million it was discovered in 1642 by Abel Tasman the Dutch Explorer. It was first settled in 1803 by the English sending convicts and their guards. I stayed in their capitol, Hobart and thought it to be quite interesting. I then went to tour Port Arthur and the Prison, horrible conditions which were thought to purge the convicts of their eviloughts. I was there 3 years after Martin Bryant ran amock and killed 35 people there on April 26, 1996 (maybe he went there to get his thoughts purged), many of those shot and killed were tourists. I was in the burned-out remnants of the "Arrow Cafe" where all this began, this is known as "the Port Arthur Massacre." Many of the Tasmanians will tell you that they have a convict ancestor. Inbreeding has always been a problem in Tasmania and in the rest of Australia they"ll tell you that Tasmanians all have a scar on their necks from where the 2nd head was severed. We all live in multi-thousands of different dimensions simultaneously, we're not born, we're dead, we're young we're old all at once, there really is no such things as "time."

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2010-10-05T10:13:00.000-07:00

As I've Been Avoiding the TV Media Recently I've Become a lot happier. If They All Jumped Off a Building the World Would be Better for It. I've Been to Australia twice and have been all Over It. I've toured the Sydney Opera House with its Pleasing Exterior although its Acoustics aren't even Close to Being the Best. I've been to Melbourne, Adelaide, a 2-Day Bus Trip to Perth where I Saw a Great Andy Warhol Exhibit, I've bee n to the Andy Warhol Museum in beautiful Pittsburg twice, I love that Stuff, the Glamour, the Soup Cans. One of the Paintings in Pittsburg was done with Cow Dung Painted Over, it was Pretty Good. Next door to Perth is Freemantle which is Quite Nice as all of the aforementioned Were as Well. I've been to Alice Springs in the Red Center (about all of Australia is Desert with Some Big Cities on the Coasts) and I've been to Ayers Rock. I Rode in on the Bus to the Place where you Stay for the night and arrange to Climb Ayers Rock. I Stayed in a Motel there and Ate at the this Huge Place Everybody eats at. For 12 U.S. they Give you 3 Big Strips of Crocodile, Emu and Kangaroo and tell you to Barbecue it on the Barby which I did Quite Well plus there's lots of Great Side Dishes included in the Buffet for this Price, had you Foodeaters been there you could have Joined In. At Dawn I Rode Out to Climb Ayers Rock. Called Uluru by the Aborigines it's Sacred to them, one of the Oldest Rocks in the World, and they Ask You Not to Climb It. It's 2381 Feet High and 9.4 Kilometers in Circumference. The Aborigines think that Dreams are Reality and even when Given Free Housing Usually Prefer to Sleep Outdoors to Commune with Nature. I didn't want to Hurt Anybody's Feeling but I Climbed Ayers Rock anyway. Soft Sandstone, it's easy to Climb, I did it in 1 Hour, the Average Time, if you can't do it inside 1 Hour 20 Minutes you can't do it. It's Very Windy especially at the top and 35 People Have been Killed Climbing It. Supposedly a New Zealand Farmer did it in 12 Minutes running all the Way to the Top. hell of a Man. I then Went to Cairns where I Scuba Dived for my Only Time, I Dove 3 of the 4 Main Sites of the Great Barrier Reef all Strangley Associated with the Battle of Hastings. I then Went to Brisbane. During WW II there were a Million American Servicemen in East Australia and tensions Arose between the American and Australian Servicemen. The Australians then and now are Infamous for their Horrible Personalities, not all are like this but Most Are. By the end of the Day You've been Insulted Several Times. The American Servicement were Payed Much more than the Australians and the Australians Resented This. The Girls found the American Servicemen to be Much More Attractive with their Outgoing Personalites and Pretty Accents and Happy to Spend their Money on a Good Time. The Australian Girls Regarded the Australian Servicemen as the Same Dour Joe Blokes they had Unfortunately Become Used to. The Australians's Anger over the Americans Ability to get the Girls and their Freespending Ways came to a Head on November 26 and November 27, 1942 when thousands of American and Ausralians Servicement Street-Fought each other for these 2 Days with Hundreds of Injuries many of them Serious and with 1 Australian being Killed. The American who killed him stood Court Martial for Manslaughter but was Acquited for Self-Defense. This was Called "the Battle of Brisbane," and News Accounts were kept from the American Public (We're Fighting our own Allies?). A Friend of Mine just Moved to Delaware to Work in the Gambling Industry and he's Eager to See if he can Register to Vote so that he can Vote for Christine O'Donnell. All of the Guys want to Vote for the Witch Chick, she's Cast a Spell over Them for Halloween plus 2-----Eyes of the Bats, Horns of the Goats, Rustle Me Up A Lotta Votes

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2010-09-28T10:27:00.000-07:00

You're trashy people. Red Rock the Bull, a Hereford-Brahma Mix (1976-1994) was born on a Ranch in Oregon and named for a nearby Redrock outcropping. Known as "the Legend" Red Rock competed for 9 Years on the National Rodeo Circuit Retiring at "11" Unridden. 308 Cowboys had Tried to Ride Red Rock for the 8-Count and All had Failed. The Closest Anyone Came was a Cowboy Reaching the 5-Count with Red Rock giving his Rankest (Strongest) Move, Crouching down as Low as he Could and Coming up Quickly to Buck the Rider Off. Bulls are Regarded as Being Stupid and Predictable while Red Rock was Smart and Only He Knew his Next Move. Other Bulls would Try to Gore a Fallen Cowboy but Red Rock didn't do This and was Admired by All on the Rodeo Circuit for his Ability and Kindness with his only Vanity Being to take a Triumphant Lap around the Arena after having Vanquished yet another Cowboy. Red Rock would give Little Children Gentle Rides on his Back on his Ranch in California but Felt Differently about a Cowboy going for the 8-Count. At the 1986 National Rodeo Finals Red Rock was the only Bull that Lane Frost couldn't Ride Preventing him from Being the only Bullrider to Ride all 10 Bulls at the Finals and Worse Yet Cost him the 1986 World Championship. In 1987 I was at a Fair in Las Vegas and Red Rock was Appearing There, I asked the Girl Attending Him if I Could Pet Him and She Said If He Let's You, He Didn't Say No. One Couldn't See this Guy who was Standing There Contentedly Munching Hay doing Anything Vigorous. A Small Bull, Probably any Bull has the Strength to Buck Off a Cowboy but the added Agility of a Small Bull would be More Important. Red Rock Retired to his Ranch in California and Lived a Wonderful Life dying from a Stroke at the Ripe Old Age of "18" on June 6, 1994.

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2010-09-21T10:25:00.000-07:00

You're Dragging Me Down With You. On February 26, 1993 Moslem Terrorists Set Off a big bomb in the Basement of the World Trade Center Killing 6 and Injuring Over A Thousand. Shortly After I Was Watching "Entertainment Tonight" and Saw an Old Friend of Mine, Curt, Being Interviewed Lengthily by John Tesh with Curt's Profile Covering a Wall. Apparently Curt had been in the World Trade Center Seeing Customers when the bomb went off and he Led People to Safety Down the Stairs with the Light from his Watch Illuminating their Escape of all things. I had gone to a Lavish Pigroast at Curt's Place in Scottsdale and a while afterwards he was Mad at Me and Shaking his Head Saying I'm Sorry I Invited You to My Party, I said I Brought a Case of Beer. I Can Go Anywhere If I Have a Case of Beer, No Doors Are Closed to Me. The People who Died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 had been Very Foolish to Work There after this Good Attempt to Destroy It. I Never Would have thought Well, That's that, the Government Has Everything Under control, the Government has Nothing Under Control then or now. To a Large Extent those Unfortunates Threw Their Lives Away. 14 Years ago there was Little to See in Nicaragua or El Salvador but Good to go there Anyway. You can go See Lake Managua outside the Capitol, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, Swim in It and Grow another Arm. Oscar Romero (1917 to 1980) showed Great Aptitude as a Carpenter and his Father Wanted Him to Pursue this Occupation but Oscar Felt a Calling to the Priesthood and was Ordained in Rome on April 24, 1942. Considered a Conservative Oscar Romero was Appointed Archbishop of El Salvador on February 23, 1977. On March 12, 1977 Romero's friend the Jesuit Priest Rutilio Grande was assassinated for Organizing the Poor, the Campesinos and Speaking out against the Government. Archbishop Romero said ".....When I Looked at Rutilio lying there dead... I Thought I too Have to Walk the Same Path." There was no Government Investigation and the Censored Press Remained Silent (like today in this country). Romero spoke out against the Government's Oppression of the Poor, he Criticized the U.S. for giving Military Aid to El Salvador and Spoke against Persecution of the Church. On March 24, 1980 While Celebrating Mass in a Hospital Chapel and Having Spoken to the El Salvadoran Soldiers in a Sermon the Previous Day Entreating them as Christians to Cease Repression of the People, Oscar Romero was Shot to Death by a Junta Death Squad as he Elevated the Chalice at the End of the Eucharistic Rite his Blood Spilling over the Altar. On March 30, 1980 250 Thousand People Attended Archbishop Romero's Funeral with Government Soldiers Shooting to Death 30 to 50 of Them, his Body was Interred in the Cathedral with Gunfire Crackling in the Background, Oscar Romero could well be Canonized Some Day.

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2010-09-16T10:38:00.000-07:00

You People are Addicted to Me and I'm Real Flattered but We Have Nothing in Common.

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2010-09-14T10:22:00.000-07:00

11 Years Ago I Was in Manhattan and I Went to the New York Stock Exchange and Stood in the Gallery. While There I Met a Young Fellow Named Rick Muniz who said that he was from Brazil, was half Italian and half Spanish, and that he now Lived in New York which he Loved and Worked as a Tour Guide. Rick Offered to Walk with me to the Twin Towers as He had some Time on his Hands and I Agreed Never Having Been There. Rick was a Heck of a Nice Guy, he didn't want any Money, he wasn't...., Just a Friendly guy. After He Showed Me the Twin Towers I Bought Us Lunch at McDonalds and he thought that was Great. He Said What the Foreign Tourists Like to do is Go to Harlem on Sunday Mornings to the Black Churches and See the Choirs in their Colorful Garb Swaying Back and Forth Singing. Good thing to do, They hear the Word and Drop a Ten in the Plate, Everybody Benefits. I Always Remember People who do Something for Me, If you See Rick Tell Him that I Thought of Him. A Friend of Mine Asked me about going to Belize with her Boyfriend, now a Mercenary in Afghanistan, for 5 Days. That Was a Perfect Destination When I Was There 14 years Ago but I Wouldn't Know About Know about Now. I Went Through Mexico, Guatamala, Honduras and Nicaraugua on the Bus Just as Central America was Coming Out of Civil War and it was Relatively Safe but Now with all these Gang Members from the U.S. being Repatriated It would be Very Dangerous. Panama where I'd been has always been Extremely Dangerous, I've been in Costa Rica and that was Very Safe 20 Years, I don't Know about now. Belize City was Regarded as Dangerous 14 Years Ago but I never had any Problem and was there only Briefly. From There to Caye Caulker was 21 Miles by Boat and There I Caught 6 Barracudas, 5 Yellow-Tailed Snappers and 1 Spanish Mackerel in three and a half hours, One of the Greatest Displays of Sustained Fishing Ever Witnessed. But What I Sought Eluded Me, the King Fish, the King Mackerel. That Night I Went to the House of My Pilot-Guide with a Bottle of Rum, Somebody had Cooked one of the barracudas and one of the Snappers to Perfection and Everyone had a Real Good Time. Then 11 Miles to Caye Ambergris (pronounced Key, an island) where I Snorkled the Barrier Reef, the 2nd largest Reef in the World next to the Great Barrier Reef. I Had a Great Time in Belize and Hopefully it's as Good today. From Belize City I took the Bus to Tikal in Guatalmala, a Great Mayan City. In my tourist guide it Says ".....When You See the Temple of the Jaguar Rising Out of the Jungle it Goes All the Way to Your Gut," yeah it does. On this Trip I was also in Chichen Itza in the Mexican Yucatan and Copan in Honduras also Great Mayan Cities. All of the Kings in Copan had Cool Names, the Greatest of Them being "Smoke Jaguar." From Tikal I took the bus and Stayed in a border town for the Night, I Stayed in their Best Hotel which was Greatly Overpriced at $6 a Night. They Gave me a big lock to put on my Door, I went Downstairs to the adjoining Cantina to get some ice. The Cantina had a Shower Curtain which served as a Door and Once Inside Everybody Crowded around Me in Curiosity. They Weren't Threatening at all but I Could Tell that These were Very Rough Men. I Spoke with them Briefly and Left. The Next Morning when I Took a taxi to the Border to recross into Belize the Driver Told Me that Somebody had been found that Morning Stabbed Many Times and Laying about a Block away from the Cantina. The Driver had known him and Said that The Night Before he had Seen Him Standing outside that Cantina and that he was Drunk. He Said that this Guy didn't want to Work and just wanted to be a Bandido and that he was "20" and that was all the Longer one Lived in Guatamala if he Went that Way. A couple of Times I Remarked that he didn't Seem Very Upset about this Guy's Passing. Honesty is the Best Policy.

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2010-09-09T10:24:00.000-07:00

You're Dragging Me Down with You and I'm Increasingly Happy About It. Alex Groza (1926-1995) was of Romanian-Hungarian Descent from Martins Ferry, Ohio in the Ohio Valley across from Wheeling, West Virginia. A 3-time All-American in Basketball at the University of Kentucky Alex led the Wildcats to two National Championships in 1948 and 1949. The 6'7" Groza was the Leading Scorer for the U.S. in the 1948 Olympics leading Them to the Gold Medal. Entering the NBA for the Indianapolis Olympians Groza Averaged 22.5 Points per Game for His 2 Years in the League. It was in his 2nd Year in 1951 that it was Found that Alex Groza along with 2 Teammates had Shaved Points in their Senior Year at Kentucky so that Gamblers Could Win Their Bets, Nothing Is Worse, and this Despite Adolph Rupp's Boast that Gamblers "...Couldn't Get to Our Boys With a 10-Foot Pole..." Alex Groza was Banned for Life from the NBA. Alex Salvaged His Life by Becoming a Succesful long-time College Coach and Even Coached in the Professional ABA. Alex Groza died in 1995 at "68" from Lung Cancer. Lou Groza (1924-2000) was the Brother of Alex Groza. After a Year at Ohio State Lou Went into the Army in WWII Serving in the Pacific and after Getting Out Joined the Newly Former Cleveland Browns under his Old College Coach Paul Brown. An Outstanding Offensive Tackle Lou Also was a Great Kicker earning Him the Sobriquet of "Lou the Toe." An All-NFL Tackle 6 Times Lou also Led the NFL in Field Goals in 1950, 1952-1954, 1957 and in 1957 Co-Led the NFL in Scoring. In 1950 Lou Groza led the NFL in Field Goal Percentage While Alex Groza Led the NBA in Field Goal Percentage. Lou Groza Played for the Browns from 1946-1959 and 1961-1967 although His 2nd Time with the Browns He was Exclusively a Kicker. In 1974 Lou Groza was Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. During the Korean War My Father Ran the Brook Park Tank Plant also Known as the Cadillac Tank Plant for the Army and Lou Groza was One of Those Employed There. Korea Wasn't Nearly as Big as WWII so Those Called Back in the Army Could Often Serve Stateside Whereas in WWII My Father was in North Africa and Italy and Lou in the Pacific. I Asked my Father How Well Lou Did at the Tank Plant and He Said that Lou was Very Good and Noted that He would Use His Own Car for Army Business. Lou Groza died in November, 2000 at "76" Dropping Dead from a Heart Attack after He and His Wife Left Their Country Club after Having Dinner. When Asked What One Should Do After Missing a Field Goal Lou Said Blame It On the Holder and Keep on Going.

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2010-09-02T10:51:00.000-07:00

For the past Decade the American Media has Known of my Existence and has Kept my Prowess a Secret from the American Public, What Kind of People are These who Pose as TruthSeekers. This Diversity Thing isn't Working, for example the Twin Towers in Manhattan Aren't There any more. Before the Past 40 Years you'd have a Methodist, a Catholic, a Presbyterian and a Jew and they'd Have Quite a Bit in Common, it's Not Like that with the Current Mix. So Far as Illegal Immigration and It's Debate the Issue has Already Been Decided, They're Here Now in Vast Numbers and Breeding. Why Anybody Would Be Talking About it at This Late Date is Beyond Me. Instead of the Minutemen Lurking around the Border They Could Just Go to any Mall to Find Illegal Aliens. This Country is Washed-Up I Give it Maybe another 10-12 Years. I Think It's All this Meth That's Been Going Around the Past 30 Years, if Americans Didn't Use it Themselves their Parents Did. In "King Rat" by the late James Clavell (the Japanese Tore the Soul from my Body) there's a Substory About a Giant Rat who Consumed all the Other Rats and Prospered but Then He Lost his Will to Dominate and he Himself was Consumed. Go into any Supermarket and You See this Land of Plenty, Better Belly Up to the Buffet Table While You Can, It's Not Going to be That Way after awhile. About 25 Years Ago I Saw an Interview on TV with the Executioner in Louisiana who Went by the Generic Name of "Sam Jones." In those Days they Used the Electric Chair in Louisiana and the Executioner, the guy who Threw the Switch by Law had to be a Licensed Electrician. Sam Jones used to be a Cop, He Said in Reference to the Stipend he was Paid for Each Execution----I Don't Care About That, Somebody Has to Do It---Things are Black or White with Me. He Said that After each Execution He Went Home and Painted a Picture and Then Destroyed the Painting and the Trauma of the Execution was Then Gone from Him. It Was an Interesting Interview.

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2010-08-30T10:23:00.000-07:00

Recently Paris Hilton and her Friend Were Threatened by a Hispanic with big Knives who was trying to Enter her House, Instead of holding this Guy at Gunpoint her Friend Should have Gunned Him Down. Their Ability to Change Somebody like That is None and He Could Eventually try to Do It Again, Better Judged by 12 than Carried by 6. I've Been to India twice and have Been all over it from Kashmir to Thiruvananthapuram that is North to South and all Points in Between. India is very dirty and for Delicacy I Won't Explain Why, I barfed at the Railway Station in Amritsar Where I had gone to See the Golden Temple of the Sikhs, not on the Platform making a Spectacle of Myself but in the Men's Room. In 1984 Indira Gandhi had the Golden Temple Stormed as She Thought Weapons were being Stored in There, it's not that big though, her Sikh Bodyguards then Killed Her and they were Hung, Lots of happiness. From Amritsar I Then Proceeded to Lahore, Pakistan. And I've Been to Agra and the Taj Mahal twice, on the Yamuna River. Shah Jahan (1592 to 1666) was the Emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1628-1658 and his Reign was Called the Golden Age of the Mughals and he was the Most Powerful Man in the World. He had 3 Wives with 2 of Those being for Political Reasons and he had Little to do with Them. Shah Jahan's 3rd Wife was Mumtaz Mahal (Jewel of the Palace), Well Known to be a Kind Person, and She and her Husband were Very Much in Love. Mumtaz Mahal married Pince Khurram in 1612 at "19," later to be Shah Jahan. In 1631 Mumtaz Mahal died in Childbirth giving Birth to Their 14th Child and She was Dying She Asked her Husband to "Show the World How Much We Loved Each Other." Shah Jahan went into Mourning and Emerged with his Hair Turned White and he began Building the Taj Mahal. He Used 20 thousand People bringing Artisans from as far Away as Europe and It took 20 years to Complete. Built of White Marble with 4 Minarets tilting away at an 85degree angle in Case of Earthquakes it was Compl;eted in 1652. The 2 Times I've been There I Went all over it from the Outside to the Inside, I was there in the Early Afternoon and at Dusk with Dawn being the other Preferred Time, Both times it Looked Great, the first time I Sent a Postcard Saying that now I Can Die Happy I've Seen the Taj. Despite it's Great Wealth the Expense of the Taj Mahal was One that the Mughal Empire Could Ill Afford, in 1658 Aurangzeb the Son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal and Less Sentimental than his Folks Deposed his Father and Kept Him in the Red Fort a Mile Away where Shah Jahan Could Look Out Over the Taj Mahal. On the Bottom Floor is Where the Side by Side Sarcophigi of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal Are and You can Buy Rose Petals as Did I to Scatter Over Them Together for the Past Four Centuries.

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2010-08-26T10:31:00.000-07:00

Hi Ho Everyone. I Was Just Watching the Movie "Rudy" on TV, Now that was a Really Feel-Good Movie with no sex and hardly any bad language. I Heard Rudy Ruettiger's Talk "Follow Your Dreams" and Thought it to be pretty good, I'm Sure that He'd Be Able to be Available to Speak to Your Group. LeBron often gushed about his love for Akron and now Chris Wells is Doing the Same. When Wells was at Akron Garfield he was considered to be the Best Player in the Country. After a Stellar Career at Ohio State he was the lst Draft Choice of the Arizona Cardinals. At Midseason in his lst Year this past Year He went to his Head Coach Whisenhunt and Told Him that he was Homesick and Whisenhunt Let Him Go Home for a Few Days and "...That Helped a Whole Lot." Oh gee. WWII Had the Elements of a Civil War with the 2 Highest Guys in the Army being Eisenhower, iron worker, and George Marshall, with the Highest Guy in the Navy being Chester Nimitz. When the Americans Liberated the Concentration Camps Eisenhower was shown in Photos Standing in Dumbfoundment. As the Germans Parlayed for Peace the Head of the American Delegation was Bedell Smith, himself a 3-Star General with Eisenhower Waiting down the Hall as he Said, I Don't Want to Talk to Any Nazi Generals.

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2010-08-22T10:49:00.000-07:00

It Used to be that a Paltry 2% of the Adults in Las Vegas Gave Blood, Now It's a Lot Less than That and They Have to Get Most of the Blood Used Locally from Elsewhere, the Concern for Others Isn't So Pronounced in Sin City. What I Give Them They Don't Give Away, They Sell It for a Lot of Money. I Was Just Watching a Chris Farley Movie on TV, Guy Could Move Well for a Man of his Girth. Chris Liked to Go to Mass Twice a Week. It's a Rite of Passage to go to the Grave of Robert Louis Stevenson on Mount Vaia just Outside of Apia, Western Samoa, I've Been There, It Was Rough as It Had Rained Recently, Took Me an Hour and a Half. A Couple of Old, English People Whizzed Past Me Like I Was Standing Still, They Did It In an Hour. RL Stevenson Said That in Relation to People's Personalities It's More Like Two. Pope Pius IX Had the Longest Pontificate, 1846 to 1878, 32 Years. If A Cardinal Displeased Him He'd Make Him Kiss His Shoe, That'd Put You in Your Place. You Have to Wonder if Bobby Fischer Would Have Gone to Iceland Had He Known They'd Let Him Be Dug Up, Doing That to a Man of His Stature. An Off-the-Wall Type Guy Who Ranted Against Jews Even Though He Was Half, Genius is Often Flawed. This Country Gave One of Their Most Esteemed Persons a Bum Deal By Harassing Him About Breaking the Trade Embargo With the Former Yugoslavia by Playing in a Chess Tournament There in 1992, Who Wouldn't Do That for 2 Million Dollars. Made This Poor Man an Outcast from the Country He Had Represented So Well. The Common Goal in This Country is to be Bland, to be Like Everybody Else. Steve Kerr Played in the NBA from 1988 to 2002 and is the All-Time Leader in 3-Point Percentage. Usually a Substitute He'd Bring in Instant Points, It's Said That Anyone Can Take a Jump Shot but Not That Well. Steve Played on 5 NBA Championship Teams in His 13 Year Career, 3 with the Bulls and 2 with the Spurs, After Retiring He Became a TV Analyst and Most Recently General Manager of the Phoenix Suns. Steve Kerr was Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1965, His Parents Being Malcolm and Ann Kerr. They Both Were the Children of Academics at American University in Beirut and They Were Also This with Malcolm Kerr Becoming the President of American University. In 1982 Malcom Kerr Was Assassinated by a Member of Hezbollah near his Office on Campus Despite Him and His Family's Love of the Middle East. I Was in Beirut in 2004 and Was on the Campus of American University and Mentioned Steve Kerr's NBA Career to a Professor, a Christian Arab. He Said Ann Was Telling Me About That, Were You Just Talking With Her? I Said I Don't Know Mrs. Kerr.

2010-08-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

All of the TV Media Would Warble Like Birds Should It Mean Their Jobs, Not Very High-Principled People. Went to the Classic Car Collection at the Imperial Palace, Best in the World, There's a '37 Mercedes That Yours Should You Have a Spare 7 mil 5. My Friend Al is Spanish and Has a Number of Properties Locally. Recently He Evicted a Guy From A House Who Was a Month in Arrears, He Took This Guy's Deposit and Changed all the Locks, He then Gave All this Guy's Possessions to the Goodwill, his Furniture, his TV, his Sound System, He Gave Away All This Guy's Clothes. Should You Be in Vegas for Awhile and Need a Place Let Me Know. This National Passion for Gambling is Very Bad, Soon There'll Be a Casino on Every Corner. A Lot of People Have that Weakness and Can't Gamble. Years Ago a Black Police Detective at one of the Detroit Casinos Blew His Brains Out at One of the Blackjack Tables After Losing 15 Thousand. The Luxor in LV is a Pyramid and all the Rooms Open to the Inside, 2 People have Leapt to their Deaths one of Them Landing Near the Buffet Line, bon appetit. Multitudes Have Killed Themselves Over Gambling although not too Many In the Casino Itself. Art Schlichter was an All-American Quarterback at Ohio State and the 4th Player Taken in the 1982 NFL Draft by the Colts. A Country Bumpkin, he Began Gambling in High School Visiting Scioto Downs, Harness Racing Near Columbus. By the End of His First Year With the Colts He had Gambled Away his Bonus and Was 700 thousand in Debt. Schlichter's Career Was Over by 1985, In a 2007 Interview Art Said that he Had Stolen at least 1.5 Million by Conning Friends and Whomever Else he Could, He Served 10 Years in Jail and Prison from 1995 to 2006. Now "50" Art Schlichter Lives on His Family's 450 Acre Grain Farm in Washington Court House, Ohio. The Pressure of Living Up to Everybody's Opinion and Expectations of Him Led Him to Give Vent to This Disease. While Still at Ohio State Art Schlichter Had A Biography in Tribute to Him, "Straight Arrow."

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2010-08-15T11:28:00.000-07:00

I Came out of Wal-Mart Yesterday and found a note on my windshield--Very Interested Buyer, a Woman's Name and Handwriting and a Phone Number. I had no For Sale Signe on my car, Everybody Wants My Car, Reminds Them of the Good Old Days, an Easier Time. The Chinese Recently Forfeited the Bronze Medal in Women's Gymnastics for the 2002 Olympics as They Had Been Found to have had an Underaged Gir. The Chinese Won the Gold Medal in This in the 2008 Olympics with Obviously Underaged Girls, The Chinese Cheat and Don't Care Who Knows It. Miami to Mexico City for the Last 4 Days of My Trip. 5 Hours by Bus to Acapulco, 277 Miles South of Mexico City. Acapulco is like Puerto Vallarta, all the Beaches are Oily, even Diamante the Best Beach. Went to La Quebrada to see the Famous Cliff-Divers, the Clavadistas. Really Something to See These 6 Daring Young Men Climb Dangerously from the Water Up to the Top of the Sheer Cliffs, Wisely Pray on their Knees at the Shrine There and Then Dive 131 Feet into a Narrow Gorge and 13 Feet of Water. Afterwards We Tourists All Tipped Well These Shy, Appealing Young Fellows (You Wanna See This). I Took the Glass-Bottom Boat out to La Roqueta Island and that was Good. Went to the Fort, Fuerte de San Diego built in 1616 to Protect the Port From Pirates which is Now a Quite Good Museum. And of course I Went Marlin Fishing, I Rented a 45 Foot Boat with a Crew of 2 for the Day, a day Consisting of 7 to 2 P.M. I Didn't Even Get a Strike Which Pleased Me to No End. But It Was a Lot of Fun to Be Out There Away from Acapulco, Saw a Lot of SeaLife, Green Turtles, Dolphins, it was a Lot of Fun Despite the Lack of a 300 Pound Marlin on My Line. I Was Out There Where Francis Drake Would Lay in Wait for Spanish Treasure Ships, the Spanish Called Him El Drage(o), the Dragon. It Was on April 22, When I Arrived at the Mexico City Airport from Miami that I Used the ATM which led to my Being Ripped-Off. I Refer My Readers to My Blog of May 27, 2010 and to my 2 Blogs of June 16, 2010. I've Graciously Recounted My Latest Wonderful Trip for the Enjoyment of My Little Readers and Now I Expect You to Get Off Your Fat Butts and Get Me My Money From Those Thieving Scum at Wells Fargo.

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2010-08-12T10:53:00.000-07:00

Chocolate

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2010-08-12T10:29:00.000-07:00

Went to a Vons yesterday, a Security Guard was Chasing a Hispanic Kid who had Taken Something, Pathos in the Parking Lot. This Week I Donated Blood for the 22nd Time here in Las Vegas, Once in San Diego. They Consider Me to Have "Rare Blood," It's ABpositive, CMV negative, They Cut My Pint 6 Ways and Give It to Preemies. Most People have the CMV Virus and that'll Kill a Preemie, I Don't Have It. The Preemies have Never Done Anything for Me and Never Will, If You Can Do Something for Somebody You Should Just Pitch In and Do It. You Might Not Know What I'm Talking About. After Arriving in Miami I Went to North Beach Where I Stayed a Couple Days, I Actually Prefer North Beach to SoBe. Went to the Bass Museum of Art, in SoBe, Went to the Fountainbleau which Recently had a Billion Dollar Renovation. Once Went in There Years Ago and Asked a Question of the Desk Clerk who Seemed Quite Amused in a Nice Way to See Me There. Best Hotel I've Ever Seen was the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. Now that Hugo Chavez has Dug Up the Skeleton of Simon Bolivar, a Huge Hero Not Just in Venezuela Where he Was From but Throughout South America, You Have to Wonder if He's Losing It. A Lot of Times When I've Aired Up My Tires I've Helped Women There to Do This. Few Things are Easier but Many of the Female Gender Have a Hard Time Doing This. Many Just See that a Tire's Seems Low so They Put Air in It Until It Looks Better to Them Doing This Without Using a Tire Gauge. As They Could Have Well Put in 55 pounds When It Should be 35 and the Tire Could Blow Up as They're Going Down the Road Endangering Themselves and Others I Help Them Put in the Right Amount. One Lady Insisted on Giving Me $2 for My Assistance, I Used It to Buy a Big Chocalate Bar.

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2010-08-08T11:17:00.000-07:00

I Wouldn't have thought that Obama would have turned down Jack Johnson for a Pardon, Seemed like he had a Raw Deal, Bill Clinton Pardoned a Hispanic who had Moved 800 pounds of Cocaine, thought this poor, Oppressed man should be returned to the Community. In New Mexico they're talking about Pardoning Billy the Kid of whom it's Undisputed that he Killed a Sheriff and 2 Deputies. Took the Greyhound to Gainesville, only place in Florida I hadn't been. Went to the Campus of the U of Florida and was in their Football Stadium (the Swamp, 96,000) and their Basketball Arena (only 12,000). Was in all their Other Athletic Facilities, quite good. They were setting up for the NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships, Florida finished 5th. Saw their 3 Football National Championship Trophies and their 2 Basketball National Championship Trophies, all pretty Recent. Saw their 3 Replica Heisman Trophies. Nice Place, was in their Chemistry Building and was Wondering if this Professor and his Lecture had been Using Laughing Gas, they Were in a Good Mood. The Professor was Setting Up when I Wandered in and asked him if this was Where Gatorade was invented in 1965. He said it was at the Medical School. I was in a Winn-Dixie away from the Campus and the Southern Accent in North Florida is so Strong that When I said "Hair" to the Lady she thought I'd said "Ear." Took the Greyhound to Miami, also $71. 3 Weeks ago I was in L.A. to see the Art Museums yet again. I went to the Getty, the L.A. County Art Museum, the Armand Hammer and the Huntington in San Marino next to Pasadena. While going to the Getty I was at a Bus Stop in Brentwood and I was talking to an Older Guy and I mentioned O.J. He said that's 3 Blocks up the Street (Bundy). I said Please Point it out as we're going Past and he did and I saw it Perfectly. 2 Rows of Claprattle Condos with their Front Doors facing each other Across a Narrow Courtyard. The Courtyard is Where O.J. killed those 2. As it was at Night I'd think Somebody would have Heard Something (Ouch). Not only is Art Pleasurable in its Own Way it also Liberates the Mind, your Mind thinking at its Optimum. Friday night I ate at the Hilton and they were having a Trekkies Convention, Saturday Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock would be there.

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2010-08-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

Took Local Buses up to Ft. Lauderdale, 3 Hours, Always Liked the Place. Elbo Room is Still There after All These Years, the Button Across the Street is now a Parking Lot. 23 Years ago I was in England at a Railway Station and an English Guy remarked 'Eve You Ever Been in the Boo-ton in Ft. Lauderdale? Said he had been there When he was in the Royal Navy and how Well he had been Treated in South Florida, good. Guess half the people in the Western Hemisphere had been in There. Always Wanted to go to Freeport, Bahamas as I was in Nassau 20 Years Ago. 6 Hour Boat Ride included a Good Breakfast Buffet and an Open Bar, little early for that. Asked Around and got a Good Hotel for $90 a Night, Lucayan Beach is Really Great, Beautiful. You're always Hearing about White-Sand Beaches and I've Never Seen One Yet although I've Seen Black and Red. Downtown Freeport is full of Crackheads but that's Ok. After a Couple Days back to Ft. Lauderdale less than a hundred miles away. Good Dinner Buffet included and I had a Stiff Whiskey and Water at the Open Bar. The Bartender who Poured It later was Doing a Great Juggling Act out on the Dancefloor, some Asian Guy, he could go on TV. There was a Band and a lot of people Danced and some were Good Dancers. Not me, I haven't been keeping up on it and didn't want to go out there and just shake about. The Boat Rides were Quite Good but both Coming and Going it took a Long Time to Disembark from the Boat, they make a big production out of it, in Europe they just Get off the Boat. In Lauderdale it was about 10 P.M. and Raining and all the Taxis that were supposed to be there Weren't and I asked Can I just Walk out of Here and was told I Could, I Walked a Quarter-Mile just to get out of the Pier Confines, fortunately there was a nearby Walgreen's that was open 24 Hours and I asked them to Call me a Cab, they were Quite Nice and I Rode to the Greyhound Station to go up to Gainesville, Stephanie's old haunts. Bought my Ticket, $71, just before the Bus left. Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was a Black South African Boxer whose Career was from 1979 to 1999. On July 19, 1997 he fought Michael Carbajal and the 4'10" Matlala sliced-up the much taller at 5'5" Carbajal to take the IBO Flyweight Crown (112 pounds). This was a Tremendous Upset. Should I Ever Borrow Money from the now "48" "Baby Jake" Matlala I'll be Sure to Repay it Quickly in Case he Has Something Left.

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2010-08-01T12:02:00.000-07:00

90% of the People who come to Las Vegas to Gamble Leave Saying that They Won Money, in Reality 90% of Them Lost Money, They've Daydreamed About It for so Long They Think It's True. Geronimo Killed Mexicans every Chance he Got as They Had killed His Family in His Youth, He had had a Vision that No Bullet Could Kill Him and It's Thought that His Name which was actually a Nickname Came from Mexican Soldiers that he was Attacking Calling Out to St. Jerome for Protection. Other Chiricahua Apaches were Attracted to Him as They Thought Him to Have "Strong Medicine" and He Became a Great Leader. Geronimo died in 1909 from Natural Causes as Old as "85." Every Place is Hot During the Summer, Some more than Others. General Phil Sheridan was Sent Out West after the Civil War on Army Business and Came Back Saying, If All I Owned Was Texas and Hell I'd Rent Out Texas and Live in Hell. I Don't Know why the Clintons are So Estatic About Chelsea Marrying Into a Family Where the Groom's Father Just Got Out of the Joint a Couple Years Ago after Doing 5 Years for Fraud. I See Where Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea are Practicing Methodists, My Mother was a Methodist and Both her Grandfathers were Methodist Ministers, She was a Convert to Catholicism. Her Father, my Grandfather was a 32nd Degree Mason, a Secret Society I've Seen Them Set Up for Their Meetings, They Put Blankets Over the Windows. I Suspect No Nefarious Doings, Think They Do Good. I Flew to Miami from Mexico City and Stayed in South Beach for 3 Days, SoBe, It's Only Become a Really in Place over the Past Maybe 15 Years before that was Cheap. Miami is my Favorite Beach in the World. Went on the Everglades Tour and that was Dynamite and Just $49. A Lady Said She had done it from Ft. Lauderdale and Liked that Better as You Don't Have to Go as Far to the 'Glades, Pretty Long Ride. It's Really Neat, go on the AirBoat and See all These Things you've Seen on TV, Have a Picture of Me Holding a 3 Foot Long Alligator, not at all Slimy Like You'd Think but Really Dry and Sort of Like Holding a Big Leather Bag. Bought a RT Ticket to Freeport, Bahamas for $150 on the 6 Hour Boat, this was Out of Ft. Lauderdale 3 Days from Then.

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2010-07-28T10:34:00.000-07:00

Once that Book is Published It'll Fly Off the Shelves, the biggest Expose in the History of this Country, a Big Fortune. For the American Media to Avoid a Probable Dire Fate all they had to do was Tell the Truth for Once in Their Lives. I Like 'Em Anyway Despite Their Faults. Glad this Roman Polansky Thing Seems to be Over, Me, I'm Tired of Hearing About It (She Was a Woo-Mon). Saw Team USA Play Saturday Night. Went to the Dentist Monday, no Cavities for the Past 11 Years, Not Always This Way. In a Couple Months I Go In To Get All That Guck Scraped Off My Teeth, a Scrapejob, Feel a Lot Better Afterwards. My Dentist Heads a Large Office, We're Also Friends, a Big, Strong Guy who Reminds Me of a Teddy Bear, He Was Showing Me Pictures of Where He Was Recently Hiking. His Daughter, "21," Fell 400 Feet Out at Redrock 12 Years Ago, Life Often Has a Sad Overtone. I Went to the Basilica De Guadalupe Where in December, 1531, Juan Diego Had the Virgin's Image Impressed on his Cloak, you can See This, Some Pilgrims Approach on Their Knees. To the Plaza of the Three Cultures and Saw the Ruins at Tlatelolco Where in 1521 The Aztecs Fought Their Last Battle Against the Spanish, Bodies too Numerous to Count. Also Here is the Templo de Santiago. On October 2, 1968 in the Plaza the Government Soldiers Massacred up to 400 Protesters Against the Regime of President Gustavo Ordaz just Prior to the Mexico City Olympics, the World Didn't Care as They Were Hungry for the Olympics. Went to the Museo Leon Trotsky, a Walled and Very Fortified House Where Trotsky and His Wife Had Lived. Kept as it Was I Was a Few Feet From Where in 1940 an Assassin of Stalin's who had Posed as a Friend Put a Mountain Climber's Axe into Trotsky head. Had My Picture taken in the BackYard Where Trotsky and Wife's Ashes are Entombed. Trotsky was Having an Affair with Frida Kahlo and for a While Diego Rivera was a Suspect. I Was at Bowling Green When I Was a Freshman, Went There Because I Thought It a Pretty Name, and Did okay in 1st Semester English. I had Full Professors for Biology, Geology, History, as they Enjoyed Elucidating Young Minds but for English I had Instructors, guys on their PhD's. For 2nd Semester English Half the Final Grade was a Term Paper whose Subject was Anything you Wanted, I Chose the Battle for Power Between Stalin and Trotsky, I got a "D plus." I thought My Paper was Real Good, It was 30 Pages Double-Spaced Typed, Well footnoted, I Didn't Plagiarize, it Made Good Sense or so I Thought, I Thought I'm Ruined. The Instructor Caught Me at the Water Fountain before Class and Started Talking to Me about my Paper. He said, "It Was Very Boring." He Said that he Didn't Think that I Was a "C" Student (he Could have Said he didn't think that I was a "D" Student) and told me that if I Got an "A" on the Final Which was an In-Class Theme that he'd Give Me a "B" for the Class. I Said Sounds Good. I Did Get a "B" (College was Hard When I Started) so that Turned Out a Lot Better than I Would Have Thought, Guess You Gotta Play to Your Audience.

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2010-07-11T13:30:00.000-07:00

It's Good that LeBron is Leaving the Cavs after 7 Years, an Athletic Life is Short, Move On. Who LeBron's Father is has Arisen Recently, 4 out of 10 Births in This Country are Illegitimate. This Country is Full of Trash. LeBron was Probably Born at Akron City Hospital, Guys there Knew How to Deliver Babies. Wish Him Well. Went to the Palacio De Bellas Artes, 2 Murals by Rufino Tamayo, also Diego Rivera's "Man at the Crossroads," destroyed when done at Rockefeller Center and Recreated Here. Museo Diego Rivera was also Quite Good of course. Went to Chapultepec Park, one of the Largest in the World. To the Castillo De Chapultepec, home of Mexico's President until 1939 now a Museum, also Residence of Maximilian and Carlota. The Monumento a los Ninos Heroes is Very Impressive, dedicated to the 6 Boy Cadets who died Fighting the American Invasion in 1947 (had my picture taken in front of it, neglected to say that I'm indirectly descended from Polk), in Grant's Memoir he says that Mexicans although poorly equipped and their officers didn't care about them put up some of the Best Stands that he was ever to see. 1847. The Museo de Arte Moderno was Nice, also in the Park. Near the Park is the Museo Nacional De Antropologia, one of the Finest Museums of its type in the World, Huge, in there 6 Hours, saw the famous "Sun Stone." To the Museo Frida Kahlo which Featured the Art of Her and her husband Diego Rivera, they Lived in this House. San Diego has just Terrible Roads and they Used to be Much Worse. 16 Years ago I Saw that there were Huge, Deep, Gaping Chuckholes throughout SD including La Jolla which the last I Noticed Had the Most Expensive Houses in the Country. I Couldn't figure it out as a Third of the American Navy was in SD, a Lot of Clean Industry and Many Well-Off Retirees. The Answer We Now Know is that Evil and Greedy Public Employees were Allowed by Weak-Minded Taxpayers to Siphon off Their Money to Fund Exorbitant Undeserved Salaries and Pensions. After about 12 Years of the Gaping Chuckholes (a long time) the Weak-Minded Said Fix Them and the Situation was Ameliorated to Some Extent although The Roads are Still Really Bad..........Take Me Home, Crumby Roads, to the Place I Belong, San Die-go Calif-orn-ia, Take Me Home, Crumby Roads.............

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2010-07-07T12:52:00.000-07:00

I Took the 8 Hour Bus to Mexico City, 2nd Largest City in the World with 25 Million, Only Tokyo is Bigger. Got into the Terminal Norte Around 5 A.M., Ate, Read, at 9 A.M. Took the Subway to the Zocalo, City Center. The Subway Has the Reputation of Being a Very Dangerous Place and for No Good Reason, the Cops are in There Pretty Heavy. During the 5 Days That I Took the Subway I Only Saw Maybe 7 Other White People Using It, All in Their Early 20's and Probably Europeans. What a Bunch of Pansies I'm So Ashamed, What Are They Going to Do, Gnaw Your Elbows. The Subway is the Fastest Way to Get Around, One Can Go From 2 Furthest Points in This Giant Area in 1 Hour, If It's Congested Up Above Down Below It's Running Smooth. It Costs 3 Pesos, that is a Quarter. What Takes Up Any Time is Going From One Line to Another, a Lot of Walking. Supposedly You Can't Take a Big Bag on the Subway, I Did and the Police Saw Me Doing This. At Rush Hours There's Special Cars That Only Women and Children Can Use, This Isn't Like What You Think So That They Aren't Crushed, It's So That the Men Don't Molest Them, Says a Lot for the Men. There Were Times When I Arrived at My Stop and I Would Have Moved Out Onto the Platform Had I Been Dead. Keep Your Wits About You and You'll Be Fine. I Arrived at the Zocalo, the Historic Center, and Found a Nice Hotel 3 Blocks Away for 42 U.S. The Air in Mexico City is Notoriously Bad, I Thought It Was OK, Nothing Like Cuba. The Spanish Arrived in Tenochtitlan in 1519 and Were Amazed at the Beautiful Buildings, the Canals, the Subways, Unfortunately They Hadn't Come to Send Pretty Postcards. The Beautiful Cathedral is a Mesh of 3 Styles, Next to It is the Templo Mayor, an Excavated Area of the 7 Cities Beneath the One that Cortez Razed. In the Ruins You Can See a Sacrificial Stone That Was Used With the Victim Bent Over for the Cruel Cut from the Obsidian Knife. The Museum Next to It is Chock Full of Artifacts--In Its Totality It's Overwhelming. The Palacio National Has Murals Outlining the History of Mexico by the Fervent Communist Diego Rivera. I Notice That You People Haven't Done Anything to Restore the Money Stolen by those Thieving Swine at Wells Fargo, Now Get Off Your Fat Butts and Get Me My Money. I Don't Really Approve of All These Foreigners Coming to Live in the U.S. but I Do Have a Couple as Friends. One is Ilia, Originally from Bulgaria. Ilia Has Scuba Dived All Over the World, He Was in the Dominican Recently and Chose Not to Dive, He Said Bad Boat, Bad Equipment, I Just Swam. It's Like that a Lot of Places. Last Year Ilia Returned to Bulgaria for the Graduation of His Granddaughter Who He Said Was Very Nice Looking and Very Bright and He Had Promised to Buy Her a New Car to Honor the Event. Afterward the High School Graduation Ceremony Ilia Wanted the Entire Family to Stand Together for a Picture and His Granddaughter Opted Instead to Run off With Her Friends to Celebrate instead of Doing Her Grandfather's Easy Request Which Would Have Taken 5 Minutes, Her Grandfather Having Come So Far and Who She Saw So Seldom. Ilia Told Her That He Wasn't Going to Buy Her a Car New or Otherwise. She's Now Doing Very Well at University Although Walking a Lot, She Sends Ilia All These Lovey e-Mails Which Go Unanswered. Ilia Said There's a Saying in His Country, If You Don't Kiss the Hand (Be Gracious) You Kiss..........

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2010-07-02T10:57:00.000-07:00

There's Been an Alarming Rise in South Africa from Deaths from Circumcisions gone Awry, They're Done on Guys "18" by an Elder Using a Spear. It Used to be That a Lot of Young Guys Who Had Gone in the Army Would Get Themselves Circumcised, They Gave Them a Liquid to Spray on It So They Didn't Tear Out the Stitches. Took the 8 Hour Bus to Guadalajara, 4 Million, Lots of Things to See. Cathedral from 1618 is Very Impressive, the Instituto Cultural Cabanas has 57 Murals by Jose Orozco, the Palacio de Gobierno has 2 Murals by Orozco, One of Them Immense of Father Miguel Hidalgo who was from Guadalajara and Who Began the Independence Movement in 1810. I Was in the Plaza de Armas 13 Years Ago With About a Thousand People Watching a Mime Perform. I Didn't Look Like Anybody Else and the Mime Made a Beeline Way Over to Me, the Crowd Gave a Nervous Laugh Afraid He'd Embarrass Me, I Laughed My Head Off at the Mime's Antics, the World Needs More Mimes. I Was in Their Teatro Degollado Modelled on Milan's La Scala Which I've Also Been In. There's the Largest Covered Shopping Flea Market in Latin America and 2 Acres Alone for the Food Area, There's Any Type of Food You'd Want, I Had Chines, There's Good Eats There. I Had the Yen to Go to Florida Where I Hadn't Been in 7 Years so I Bought a Ticket RT From Mexico City to Miami to Stay 11 Days, Just $509, Pretty Good for a Ticket to Be Used in 6 Days. I Feel Sorry for Jeremy Wariner Who Was Smoked in the Beijing 400 Meters by LaShawn Merritt Who's Now Serving a 2 Year Drug Suspension, Explains His Abrupt Improvement Before the Olympics. Wariner (White Lightning) Should Have Won His Successive Gold Medal in an Event in Which It's Very Hard to Repeat. The Headline in Today's San Diego Paper Was That Don Coryell Had Died at "85," the Only Coach to Win Both a Hundred Games in College and the NFL and Both Done in San Diego. That Intense Look. Saw the Padres Play the Rockies Wednesday Afternoon, Like Day Games, Tony Gwynn's Kid Doesn't Hit Like His Dad But Earns his Keep in Center Field, Petco is the Most Cavernous of Ballparks, the Padres are Hoping to Lure Great Pitchers to Petco Who Will Take Less Money to Play There, Dream On. I Was Born into a Great Nation Which Now Has the Aura of a Banana Republic, Illegal Means Against the Law, I'm an American Why Would I Want to Live Around a Bunch of Mexicans. All They Ever Had to Do Was Jail or Fine Employers who Hired Illegals, the Will to Enforce a Major Federal Law Was so Weak They Didn't Do This. I Wish that Anna Chapman Would Have Tried to Get Information out of Me, It Sounds Like a Big Waste of Good Money at Best for the Russians, These People Weren't Going to Accomplish Much, Us Men Are Hoping They Exchange Anna for an American Spy or Something.

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2010-06-27T13:23:00.000-07:00

Kelly Ripa Seems to be Coming Out, She Wouldn't Be Doing This Unless She Knew that Somebody Was About to Publish an Article or Book About Her Activities. The ABC People are Wetting Their Pants About This as the Public Will Learn That They Covered This Up. The Public Will Learn that the Other Networks Were Bought Off. Why You People, the American Media, are The Way You Are is Beyond Me. And You've All Concealed My Talents From the American Public, I'd Like to Make Some Money From This So Talk Me Up. I Took the 12 Hour Bus from Mexico City to Puerto Vallarta Where I Hadn't Been for 13 Years. Sand Was Quite Dirty Unlike Before, Found a Good, Cheap Flop With the Help of A Very Nice Taxi-Driver Who Had Lived Legally in the States. If You Want A Good Flop Ask the Cabbies. P V was Basically Unknown (now 350,000) Until "Night of the Iguana" Thrust it into the Public Eye and the House of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton is One of the Sights (can't go in). Was There on Good Friday, the Mexicans Seemed to Take It as a Holiday, I Didn't Think They Were Full of the Spirit. Went to the Beach Where Huge Crowds Were Descending With Much Tecate in Tow, the Soldier Said to Me "Chicas," Indicating There Were Girls to be Had, Nice Thing to Say. 7 Hour Bus to Mazatlan Where I Hadn't Been for 28 Years, Went to the "Holiday Inn" Where I Had Stayed, the Only Time I've Stayed at an American Brand Hotel in a Foreign Country, Same Jive Place. Sand was Better than PV, It Was Easter Sunday I Went to Their Cathedral, Good, Once Again I Didn't Think the Mexicans Were All Jacked-Up on Religion, Most Seemed to Relish the Day as a Holiday. I Was Walking Down the Malecon and Saw This Beautiful, Elaborate Sculpture that This Guy Had Built in the Sand of the Crucification Scene (the "Bad Thief" Picked a Strange Time to be Sceptical about Salvation). I Gave the Guy Some Money and Posed With Him Next to his Artwork for a Picture. In My Youth I Took a Job Working the Desk at a Holiday Inn in Akron, They Had Me Work 10 Days in a Row and Finally Gave Me a Day Off, Then They Called That Morning to Say That I Should Also Come into Work that Day as Well, I Said, Why, I Was Just Getting Ready to Call You to Tell You That I Quit, They Got Mad and Hung Up on Me.

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2010-06-25T10:28:00.000-07:00

Went to the Del Mar Fair on Wednesday, I Asked You People to Come Along and You Said No,No. I Was There 11 Hours and I Needed That to See It All, It's Good to See All the Other Animals and All the Booths, Pigs and Horses are my Favorites although I Like Them All. I Saw Show Horses Being Put Through Their Paces, I Like Everything About the Fair. And I Saw Kenny Loggins There, I'm "63" Today (Happy Birthday to Me) and He's Only Half a Year Younger. Kenny Was Backed Up by a 5-Man Band and They Were Really Great, Such a Good Time. Kenny Sang His Big Hits Like "This is It," 2 of His Hits Were Movie Themes to "Top Gun" and "FootLoose," and Many More During an Enthused Hour and 50 Minutes. Kenny Said That Once a Burly Biker-Type Guy Was Sitting in the Front Row at One of His Concerts and After a While Was Giving Him the Bad Eye Finally Saying, Sing the Song About the Bear. He Sang "House on Pooh Corner" Along With the Others in a Voice Still Beautiful and Distinctive. From Havana I Flew to Cancun and I Stayed at a Nice Hotel Downtown for 30 U.S., Simply Taking the Bus Up to the Playa Where I Swam in Front of the Sheraton. All of the Beaches in Mexico are Public and You Can Lay on the Beach Chairs that They Have Layed Out for Their Guests Even if You're Not, I Did This. Cancun is Worth Going to Just to Look at the Beautiful Turquoise Water, It's a Great Beach. I Had Wanted to Go to Brazil on This Trip and Went to What Was Supposed to Be Their Consulate in Cancun to Get a Visa but it turned out to be an Abandoned Building. I've Wanted to Go to Brazil on 3 of My Last 4 Trips and Haven't, Not Been There for 20 Years When I was All Over It, Guess I'll Have to Plan It Better the Next Time. So I Decide Travel Around in Mexico Where I Hadn't Been for 13 Years. I Took a Bus for an Hour South toTulum to See the Mayan Ruins. Tulum Was One of the Few Inhabited Mayan Cities When the Spanish Arrived in 1518. I Rode a Bicycle 4 Miles Out to the Extensive and Impressive Ruins, There's a Beach You Can Climb Down to That Looked as Good as Cancun but I Guess Everybody Had Come Just to See the Ruins. After Tulum I Took the Bus Back to Cancun and Flew Out to Mexico City Where I Got a Bus to Puerto Vallarta. "....Please, Celebrate Me Home, Give Me a Number....That I'll Always Remember....."

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2010-06-20T13:38:00.000-07:00

I See Where Obama Ran Over to See Stephen Strasburg Pitch, Who Wouldn't Want to See That. I Saw Nolan Ryan Pitch a Complete Game Shutout of the White Sox When He Pitched for the Texas Rangers, This Was the 2nd to Last Year of his Career and He Was "45." He Seemed More Supple Than Others, On His Windup His Knee Was in Front of His Mouth. When Ryan Pitched for the Angels His Catcher had a Sponge in His Glove. Our Parakeet, Pretty Boy, Was a Very Wise Bird. And Very Bright, When He Was "3" and Middle-Aged I Taught Him How to Speak, I'd Say a Phrase a Few Times a Day for 2 Weeks and He'd Be Able to Say It As Well as I Could, Had Mighty Good Ears Too Wherever They Were. And Pretty Boy Loved People, He Thought Them Wonderful and Exciting, Whoever Was Around He'd Land on Their Shoulder and Visit for Awhile. He Could Say About 20 Phrases Such as...Pretty Boy is a Blue Bird....He's a Pretty Boy...Big, Bad, Bird. When Our Parents Retired to San Antonio Pretty Boy Stayed With Me for 2 or 3 Weeks Until My Brother Bob Could Move Him from Akron Up to Cleveland to Live With Him. One Day I Bought an Apple Specificall so that I Could Give Him a Slice and When He Saw Me Approach His Cage He Gave a Chirp of Excitement. I Put the Slice Up High For Him and He Didn't Notice When it Fell to the Bottom of His Cage. I Raised My Voice Saying, Yes, That's Where the Apple is Stupid. I Thought What Are You Doing Yelling at a Bird. Hardly the Type of Bird to Allow Himself to be Treated That Way, Later that Evening I Fell Asleep in Front of the TV and He Was Outraged by the Sight, Not Only Had I Yelled At Him that Afternoon But I Was Doing What He Wanted to Do But Couldn't Because His Cage Door was Open, There Was No Cover Over his Cage and the Lights Were On. I Woke Up to Find Pretty Boy Walking Angrily Across My Bare Chest Left to Right, His Feathers Were Slicked Down and He Was Making Angry Sounds. He Stopped When he was Almost to the End of My Chest and Stood Up and Looked Me in the Eye. I Started Moving to "Put Him in Bed" and He Flew to His Cage Door and Entered Knowing This. A Little While Later He Moved Up to My Brother Bob's in Cleveland, Well, He Had Rebelled Against My Regime Setting Himself Up as the Boss in Our Domicile, Up in Cleveland There Was a More Natural Flow to Things of Two Happy Bachelors.

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2010-06-16T15:04:00.000-07:00

On April 22, 2010 I Arrived at a Bancomer ATM Machine in the Mexico City Airport, There Was Nobody Else There. I Put in My ATM Card from Wells Fargo and Received 2600 Mexican Pesos, I Stepped Away From the ATM Machine While Holding in My Hands My ATM Card, My Receipt and My Pesos. Wells Fargo Refused to Look at the Videotape of This Which Would Show Immediately After I Stepped Away From the Machine Somebody Who Had Been Behind Me Stepping Up and Using the Machine in That Time Frame in Which the 2nd Withdrawal From My Account Was Made.

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2010-06-16T13:47:00.000-07:00

I Refer my Readers to my Blog of May 27, 2010. Wells Fargo has the Obligation to Reimburse Me in the Event of Fraud When I'm Using Their ATM Card. What Happened to Me Could Happen to Any American, There's Nothing Different About Me in This Regard, This Could Easily Happen to You. You People Haven't Exerted the Pressure Needed on Those Thieves at Wells Fargo for Them to Admit their Liability and Give Me My Money That Was Criminally Taken from that Bancomer ATM Machine in the Mexico City Airport Using Their Card. Wells Fargo is so Blatant in Robbing Me that They Make Preposterous Statements Such as It Being "Physically Impossible" for Someone Else Other Than Myself to Have Made that 2nd Withdrawal. I'm Expecting You Readers to Get On This and Tell Wells Fargo that They're a Bunch of Crooks and to Give Me My Money Back. Edward Stephen Preusse Claim # 30510100101. The Mexicans Can't Even Police Their Own Airport. I'm Actually Rather Fond of my Little Noodniks Despite Your Failings. I Want to Warn My Readers About the Danger of a Latin Bathroom. Throughout Latin America There Are Usually Slick Tile Bathrooms, About All the Many I've Been in Are This Way. By Far the Worst Are in Cuba. The Bathroom Tile is so Slick That I Almost Fell a Number of Times and I Did Fall in Baracoa. I Had a Beautiful Room in the Casa Particulare That I Stayed At, But the 2nd Night I Took a Shower and Didn't Put Down a Towel as I Stepped Out into the Equally Slick Curved Floor and I Went Down Instantly on my Back on This Hard as Rock Floor With my Head Bouncing Off With a Loud "Crack." My Glasses Were 10 Feet Behind Me. There Was Blood Pouring Down My Head and Face. I Felt Fine, I Didn't Even Have a Headache, a Few Years Ago a Chiropractor Told Me That I Have Good Bones, I Believe It, Many Would Have Fractured Their Skull. I Waited Until I Stopped Bleeding, Cleaned Up the Blood and Went to Bed 2 Hours Later. When I Lay on my Left Side the Room was Spinning Around but When I Lay on my Right Side it was Normal. And I Was Totally Fine in the Morning. Don't Be Afraid to Throw Down that Beautiful, Fluffy White Towel(s), I Don't Want to Hear of My Readers Being in Cuba and Having to be Brought Home in Body Bags Because They Were Trying to Get Clean.

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2010-06-12T10:18:00.000-07:00

The Evening of March 23, 2010 I Went to the Estadio Sandino, Seating only 20 thousand, in Santa Clara to see the 1st Game of the Best of 7 Cuban Championship Series between the Villa Clara Orangemen and the Industriales Blue Lions, Villa Clara having Won in the Playoffs Iwith the Ciego de Avila Wasps and Industriales Having Beaten the Havana Bulls. My Pass Looked a Lot Better than Everybody Else's and I thought it Gave Me Juice for a Real Good Seat and I Was Right (cost me 3.60), I Showed My Pass to the Soldier to Sit Yet Again Behind 1st Base and He Nodded. To Say the Place was Packed is Putting it Mildly, People Were Sitting in Each Other's Laps Although Men Didn't Do This. With a 3-2 Lead in the 8th Inning the Villa Clara Catcher Came Out and Reassured his Pitcher Who Was In a Tight Spot and at the End he Slapped the Pitcher's Rear With His Glove. Men in Sports are Always Doing This and Never at Any Other Time. The Game Ended with This Score as in Cuba it's a Game of Skill without Beating the Ball to Death, no Homers in the 2 Cuban Games I Saw and few Long Drives. When the Game was Over I Wanted to Leave but Couldn't as the Villa Fans Sang and Danced for Half an Hour After, the Place was so Packed I Had to Leave When Everybody Else Did. I Felt Bad that Industriales Eventually won the Championship Series in 7 Games Winning the 7th 7-5. Poor Little Villa Clara. To Havana, Population 2.2 Million, yet Again. I Went to the Museo de San Salvador at the Castle Guarding the Harbor and it was Full of Spanish Treasures. I Was in the House that Jose Marti was Born in. I Was at the Monumento de Estadiantes de Medicine which Still has the Wall Where 8 Cuban Medical Students were Executed by Firing Squad on July 27, 1871 after Being Falsely Accused of Desecrating the Tomb of a Spanish Loyalist. The Art Museum is Impressive. The Partagas Cigar Factory Tour was Out of Sight, cost $10 but Worth it. Our Guide Luis, a Well-Spoken Young Man Took Us All Over the Factory Which Has 400 Workers, We Saw Where the Various Tobacco Leaves Were Bundled by Experts for the Various Types of Cigars. Everyone Works Slowly and Methodically, a Plum Job it Pays $40 a Month and Every Worker Gets to Choose 3 Cigars a Day to Take Home with Him including the Most Expensive which even in Cuba Cost 20 U.S. apiece. Many Workers Wash Out in their Selection Process. Looked like a Fun Place to Work. Went to the Museo de la Revolucion which has Items from the War for Independence and Fidel's War, Pretty Good. One Section is Titled "Rincon de los Cretinos" which Features Cartoons Ridiculing Batista, Reagan and Bush the Younger (the Corner of Idiots). Across the Way is are Martial Vehicles including a Tank that Fidel Supposedly Operated Himself at the Bay of Pigs, there's also the Boat "Granma" encased in Glass in which Fidel and His Boys Landed Back in Cuba in 1956. Havana is a Great Place for Tourists in Fact All of Cuba is. I Almost Missed my Flight Back to Cancun as the Plane Left Early of all things, I Had to be Summoned Over the Intercom.

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2010-06-08T10:13:00.000-07:00

From Camaguey I Traveled by Private Car to Ciego de Avila, a Nice Town of 85,000, 300 Miles SE of Havana. Ciego had a Couple of Nice Museums, a Nice Square, Pretty Little City. From There to Santa Clara which is in the Middle of Cuba in the Province of Villa Clara. There is the Impressive Mausoleum and Monument to their Hero, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. In October, 1997 Che's Remains were brought Here from Bolivia and Layed to Rest Beneath a Massive Bronze Statue of Che with Rifle. In 1965 the Restless Che went to the Congo to foment Revolution then to Bolivia in 1966 Saying there should be Hundreds of Vietnams. Che's Ambition Meant his Doom as it was Determined that Che was too Dangerous to the U.S. to Live and Was Betrayed to a CIA Led Operation by the Peasants he Was Trying to Help. To Che's and Fidel's Thinking Liberty and Individualism was Corruptive as the Goal was Collective Social Welfare. Fidel turned Che (an Argentinian Affectionate Nickname meaning "Buddy") into a Cult Figure. The Cuban Youth Organization the "Young Pioneers" Motto is "Seremos Como Che," I Want to be Like Che. Che Wrote 2 Books on Guerilla Warfare Which are Standard Textbooks for Revolutionaries Today. The Museo Abel Santamaria was Real Good, Full of Info and Pieces from the War of Independence, Fidel's War and Natural History. A Former Barracks of Batista, Fidel Said that all of Batista's Barracks Should be Turned into Centers of Learning. In Santa Clara there is the Tren Blindado, a Museum of Train Cars Commemorating Che's Attack on a Troop Train of Batista's at the Site on December 12, 1958, it was Pretty Neat. Santa Clara is a Real Nice Town, I Walked (far) to Everything. And the Casa Particulare Interceded for me and I Received a Preferred Seating Pass to the First Game of the Cuban Championship Baseball Series for 2010.

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2010-06-04T10:19:00.000-07:00

From Holguin I Traveled to Camaguey by Private Car With 3 Strangers. The 3rd Largest Next to Havana and Santiago with a Population of 270,000 and 385 Miles SE of Havana. Founded in 1515 I Was in the Most Recent of the 2 Versions of the Catedral Nuestra Santa Iglesia, It Looked Pretty Good. In Its Previous Incarnation in 1688 Henry Morgan Locked the City Fathers Inside and Starved Them Until They Revealed the Location of Their Treasures, an Enterprising Guy. I Was in the House now a Museum of Carlos Finley Who Helped Discover the Vaccination for Yellow Fever. You See Che's Countenance All Over Cuba. Camaguey Was OK, Holguin is Much Better. The Only Reason There's Still a Trade Embargo of Cuba After a Half Century When It Should Have Been Lifted 30 Years Ago is Because a Lot of Silly Old Cubans in South Florida Want It Until the Castros and Their Ilk are Out of Power. We, the People of the U.S. Were Gracious to Allow these Cubans Into This Country Who Cares What They Say About That or Anything Else. There Shouldn't Be Any Dual U.S. and Some Other Country Citizenship, Countries Are Often in Conflict and You Can't Serve 2 Masters. See the Season that Bryce Harper Had but CCSN Usually Plays Him at Catcher, a Dangerous Position, He Can Play Any Position and When I Saw Him Play He Was in Center Field. Several Years Ago I Was Making One of My Greyhound Trips and I Was in Albany and Saw the Biggest and Best of the State Capitol Buildings. But at That Time You Couldn't Leave Your Bag at the Greyhound Station and I Had to Lug It Up and Down All Those Stairs at the Capitol Building and All Over Downtown Albany. No Self-Respecting Terrorist is Going to Hijack a Greyhound Bus or Blow Up a Greyhound Station, the Loss of Prestige to His Movement Would Be Such That It Would Fall Apart Instantly. Boy Was I Tired, hadn't been to Bed the Night Before. I Journeyed to a Town Maybe 60 Miles from Albany, it was Memorial Day Weekend, I Asked a Little Girl Cop, She was Real Cute and Petite, Officer, What Motels Might You Recommend. She Said Maybe I Could Stay at One for Free, My Ears Lit up. She Called It In, I Didn't Look Like a Transient and Was Curious Where This Was Going to Lead. She Walked With Me 5 Blocks to the Police Station and the Chief, a Kind-Looking Guy, Asked Me a Few Questions None of Which Was Did I Have $3000 in T X's on Me. I Was Told That I Could Stay at This Local Motel for Free that NBight Provided I Agreed not to Bring Alcohol into My Room, Be Out by 9 the Next Morning and to Get Out of Town the Next Day. And it was a Real Nice Motel, this Saved Me a Hundred Bucks. I Was Going to Leave Early the Next Day Anyway and Go to Coopertown to See the Baseball Hall of Fame, I Was Really Moved That They'd Do That for Me, Not the Town Without Pity.

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2010-05-30T10:23:00.000-07:00

Recently the Las Vegas Police Arrested Members of the Israeli Mob for Various Felonious Activities One of Whom had Previously Blown Off his Right Arm While Trying to Attach a Bomb to the Underside of a Rival's Car Persevering Despite this Indication that Crime Might Not Be his True Calling. From Baracoa I had to Have Somebody Drive Me to Holguin in a Private Car Costing Me 115 U.S., better that than Wasting my Time in Baracoa. Holguin is 500 Miles South of Havana and 140 Miles North of Santiago, in 1492 Columbus Sent a Party inland supposedly Thinking They'd be Arriving at the Court of the Emperor of Japan if You Can Believe That. 30 Years Later Holguin Established a Town There and the Province Was Also Named for Him. Since 1934 the Rulers of Cuba Have Come from Holguin, Fulgencio Batista was Born in Poverty and Out of Wedlock, Part Black, Part Taino Indian and Part Chinese. Conversely Fidel and Raul Castro Came from One of the Wealthiest Families in Cuba, as Part of their Rebel Activities They Burned Their Family's Fields. Batista Died in Spain in 1973 as One of the Richest Men in the World. A City of 200 Thousand and Real Spread Out I Liked Holguin a Lot. I Climbed the Loma de la Cruz, 450 Steps and That's a Few, a Cross was Set Up Here in 1790 and You Can See Forever from There. The Plaza Calixto Garcia had a Neat History Museum and I Went to the Plaza de la Revolucion to the Mausoleum of Calixto Garcia. We Got Our Flag from My Uncle's Casket. The American Women who Served in Vietnam have a Memorial on the Mall in D.C. even though only 8 Died and None in Combat (traffic accidents, etc.) and the Americans from WW I Certainly Deserve at Least Equal Treatment.