The Lying World of the Main Stream Press

Being a right wing kind of guy, it always amazes me how stupid the Republican Party has become....while our resident American Socialist Party(Democrats) and their "We hate America First" followers refuse to debate on Fox, because of the FNS perceived "right wing bias"....the dupes in the GOP gladly go on the CNN/You Tube debates and become fodder for "plants" in the audience asking simple minded questions that any real conservative would laugh at....sorry to say there are no "real" conservatives in the GOP race and the boys gladly answers questions from a "union moll" claiming to be an independent working mother....and to top that off, CNN takes a "rump ranger" retired full bird and half assed one star reserve General, trying to get the debaters to bite on his bid to let perverts(yes folks, queers are perverts, take it or leave it) come out of the closet and serve in drag....OK, OK, maybe I'm a little overboard there, but really not far off the mark...the goal of the radical fags is to make their perversions seem "normal".....sorry guys, it's not...I could care less what you do behind closed doors, but don't try sticking it in my face The military job is to kill people and win wars, not make some sick statement on society.

Bottom line is, the Republican Party, my former party, is making me sick.....at least with the Democrats, we know they hate us, and hate the country.....they tell you right up front....meanwhile, the GOP keeps throwing shit, and hoping it will stick.

Here is the Fox story on last night's phony debate with photo of Old General Brown Eye himself:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314002,00.html

Meanwhile__________

Went and got the MRI at Mercer County Hospital today...about 45 minutes long....and a boat load of "images" to drag off to Fort Wayne next week....lucky for us most of this is covered by insurance....the MRI alone has to be big $....not sure I want to know. Meanwhile the back stays the same.....8 weeks this weekend, so I say it's time to get with the program and see what can be done.

Greenville tomorrow for a couple hours filling in.

Two local teams Coldwater 13-1 and Marion Local 14-0 play tomorrow(Marion), and Saturday(Coldwater) in the state finals in Divisions 4 and 5 respectfully....Coldwater's only loss was early to ML...both play teams from Youngstown....Marion will win I am confident, Coldwater has a much tougher assignment, Youngstown Cardinal Mooney, a team they defeated 2 years ago....a team that hasn't lost since....and is looking for for revenge.

Good Luck to both.....

Big college football weekend as well....Ohio State hoping that either West Virginia(not much chance) or Missouri(fair chance) loses to send them back to the National Championship game in January. If that fails, it's off to Pasadena and the Rose Bowl...not a bad consulation game.

photos{Fox and the rest...Fox may have to much fluff and blondes...but compared to the marxist rot put out by the rest.....it's far and above the best}

Back Pain, Mike, and remembering the past

Sitting here on the computer, waiting for the extreme pain of the morning to go away or at least reduce itself enough for me to get myself around. Funny(not really) thing about this type of pain...it starts off in the morning from the time you wake...then usually the different levels arrive. less after you move around, then as the day wears it comes back, depending on the day's activities. No work in Greenville this morning, so got up before Patricia headed off to school, so she could help me get dressed...sad state of affairs, but without her, I would be hours getting enough movement to get around. That's how far I've went downhill the past couple of weeks...from seeming better before the Akron trip to this. But as a line in a long forgotten movie once stated..."pain is what makes you alive"...."Bullshit" is what I say.

Anyway the Ortho gave me a 10 day supply of Celebrex to reduce inflammation....took 2 yesterday, then supposed to take one a day until I go back.....well, that probably ain't gonna happen...it did not help me sleep without pain, yes I slept longer, but still had the pain this morning...so I figure, I might as well go back to the Ibuprofen and a couple of cold ones...less side effects and just as effective, without the chance of the stuff having a reaction.

Anyway off to the MRI in C0ldwater tomorrow.....then wait for another week before heading back to Fort Wayne next Wednesday.

Sam heads for Rhode Island with a RV today.....says he needs the miles, the RV business is a little slow around the Christmas season.

Mike and Me____________

My older(and only) brother Mike is in Columbus this week getting tested for probable stage 2 on the vocal cords.....after breaking his leg almost a year ago down at his Homosassa, Florida, home, he went downhill over the next few months....during his recovery back in Ohio, he has now gotten himself off the 2 pack a day smoke habit(45 years running) cold turkey, and seemed to be turning the corner, until the lost or raspy voice came along.....after foot dragging by the VA(slow but never steady is it's motto), he finally got back in for a look at his vocal problems, and depending on what they see Friday, it appears he probably has stage 2 cancer on the cords....but this is actually better than feared...his daughter, a RN, got him in earlier than they wanted....and it now appears they can do laser to remove the problem....that will come in the 2nd week of December, and as it looks he will be released on December 15th....his 61st birthday.

Doesn't look like Mike will be getting back to Florida for the winter....at least not at this point....

Mike and I grew up in Venice, Florida(although both of us were born in Van Wert, Ohio) from 1953-1963....we were different to say the least, our personalities never did seem the same, we got along, like all siblings, more or less....him being the oldest probably had it's advantages and disadvantages...me, being the 2nd, ahead of 2 younger sisters, never seemed like much of a bargain. We had our battles, him being the oldest, made him king of the hill.....but we never had any serious fights...he would have won(until our post Air Force days, then, there would have been a changing of the guard), but it never came to that...we got along later in life, still two completely different souls with different outlooks on life, God, and activities....Mike was the hunter, I like fishing better, Mike was into fast cars, me, not so much, I liked comfort...he liked to smoke and drink, I settled for beer, an occasional mixed drink or Drambuie.....later on I would discover fine hand rolled cigars...but thankful I never did enjoy the smell of cigarettes...so I never partook. After his divorce 25 years ago, Mike the Telephone installer, moved and lived on the road before finally settling in Homosassa, a Gulf of Mexico berg, about 50 miles north of Tampa...it suited him well, until the back problems from to much travel and too many falls from poles ended his working days....his boat and his house trailer, located on the Homosassa River(100 yards from his watering hole, The Manatee Pub), fit his life style, until health problems set him back a couple of years ago.....Mike is at the crossroads....we will see how this works for him, and the family....he has two daughters in Columbus and 2 granddaughters to think about, plus mom is still in good health, and basically taking care of him...who would think it?...83 year old mother is actually in better condition than 60 year old son.....and if I don't improve, she may have me beat.......

And life goes on.........................

Photos{Mike and me in the late 1950s....next to dad's 100 lb Jew fish at the Venice Jetties...and in 1958 Mike was on the Varsity of the Venice Elks Little League team, I was on the JV of the same squad}

MRI Time

After a quick morning at Greenville...I headed over to Fort Wayne to FWO and checked in with the Orthopedic Surgeon....read the 3 week old X-Rays and basically told me the same thing as the Chiropractor....your 5th(lowest) disk appears to be rubbing bone to bone....Ya Think? Anyway the MRI is scheduled for Thursday at noon in our local hospital in Coldwater....will hand carry those over to Fort Wayne next Wednesday....and begin the path to recovery....always the optimist....yah, right!

The last 2 weeks have been a "trip" with drives to Akron, Columbus, and Wisconsin...now back and forth to Fort Wayne and Greenville....so the walking and apparent recovery have been "set back".

Anyway Thanksgiving in Wisconsin went well...our entire family was there and all of Patricia's family made an appearance.....can't ask for much more than that.

Back from Wisconsin

Arrived safe and sound, with back still in tact but still aching....Ortho appointment in Fort Wayne tomorrow afternoon....more later.

A Wisconsin late fall sunset on Thanksgiving day......

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving....the long drive to southeast Wisconsin will get started in the early morning...actually not that long a drive for someone who drives RVs across the country, however the trip through Chicago makes every drive that way seem long.....especially with the back acting up. 340 miles from Celina to Oconomowoc...used to take 6 hours, now between 7 and 8...would be worse if we left tonight....but these days Thanksgiving Day travel is not much quicker....

http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result.php?q1=Celina%2C+Ohio&q2=Oconomowoc%2C+W1&q3=&Q4=&Q5=

As far as the back? After the trips to Akron and Columbus last week, it is at it's worse since 1993....the first couple of hours in the morning are bad, although I have been able to sleep, pillow between the knees, for most of the night without excessive pain. Anyway, today I go to the Chiropractor and pick up my X-Rays....Monday when I return from Wisconsin, I head to Fort Wayne Orthopedics and get them looked at....

http://www.fwortho.com/

I'm hoping for a steroid/cortisone shot epidural at the least....that worked 14 years ago and I did not have problems again until this year. We will see what shakes out, I will avoid open back surgery except as a last resort, and only then with a couple of opinions. Being 58 rather than 44 probably makes the options less.

My goal is to lose the 20 pounds(that I've gained this summer and fall) that I've packed on since the back flared up, I stopped lifting weights, and football officiating has ended....never easy during the Christmas season.....I also want to be ready for high school baseball season....my first regular season game is March 31st.....

Those are the goals......time and the exact back problem will tell.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL.....BE SAFE....BACK ON SUNDAY..........

How Stupid Are the American People?

???? It appears they are pretty damn dumb.

Let's get one thing straight, I'm no fan of GW Bush, yes I voted for the guy twice, but look who he was running against? Nuff Said, "Hot Air" Al, and the Swift Boat Traitor......as a Vietnam Veteran, those 2 assclowns are right down there with Billy Bob Klin-toon. Only thing I can imagine being worse is the former first dyke....Hillzilla the Beast.

Of course politics in general, and the Presidential race in particular are in a sad state.....let's look at our choices 11 1/2 months out(what the Hell are we doing running a Presidential race that lasts over 2 years anyway?)....

Hillzilla....Obama Osama...and The Breck Girl on the left

Crazy Ron Paul for the druggie we hate America First crowd....

and the RINOs....McCain, Romney, Rudy......

That leaves us with Huckleberry Hound from Arkansas, Fred Thompson, is he still acting? or running for Prez?, and a cast of stragglers...led by Duncan Hunter and Tommy T from Colorado(if I had to choose, it would be from the last 2, but alas, they have little chance.

So we have this interesting collection:

Hillary-Nuff Said, she's Bill with a pair between her legs, and my guess is, she has a better taste in women than her husband.

Obama=a mostly White kid from Kansas, raised white, pretending to be black...too bad his old man the Muslim Terror supporter headed back to Africa long ago, to die with the natives.....

The Breck Girl John Edwards...a low life Ambulance Chaser who uses his wife's cancer and his son's death to prop up his failed campaign.....

Then we have Mexican Bill Richardson....of course Bill fails to mention his dad was as lily white as me, and he was hardly raised in the Hispanic slums of Albuquerque.

Let's not forget the front running GOP boys....

Rudy....Now there is a RINO....don't get me wrong, I respect his view on terrorists, but not much else...could I vote for him? Only if someone put a gun to my head, and if elected, none of us would be able to own guns anyway....

McCain...War Hero, Political Zero.....his stance and support of illegals has left him D.O.A in the GOP.....

Romney....I could support a Mormon...but Mitt was a big time liberal until he decided to run as a Republican for President...again, I could vote for him, but would have to hold my nose.

Huckabee? Another Arkansas Governor from Hopeless.....? We will see....

For those that can no longer stand either party...there is the Constitution Party....I support 95% of their views, but once again, like Ron Paul, they are apt to Blame American First when it comes to the war on terror......

http://www.constitutionparty.com/

Again I like most of their platforms, but I guess I'm just a hateful bigot...because I want to kick the living camels out of the Middle East....and do it once and for all.

Damn, that felt good....now tomorrow no politics, but on to the Thanksgiving plans.

Photos{? Who is more attractive, Billy or Hilly, and who has the bigger pair?}

Weekend Wrap-Up

Another weekend by the board, Ohio State defeats Michigan, Hal home for the holiday break from Wright State, me deciding what to do with my back...etc, pretty much a routine November weekend, the last one before the unofficial "Christmas Holiday" season begins.... between now and early January 2008 we are in the holiday season mode.

Dartball at Rockford Methodist tonight, they are 5 and 1 we are 4 wins 2 loses, me, a lifetime .400 hitter, sitting with a rather pathetic .150 batting average and just 1 run batted in.....I may just keep score tonight, the back that seemed to be getting better, is now back to where it was 5 or 6 weeks ago.....the chance of laser or some other type correction is looking more and more like the risk. Sam will be back from Chicago, so with him and Hal home to help out, I can afford to sit and keep score if needed.

Looks like snow may be on the way for our Wisconsin trip....making the run through the outskirts of Chicago all the more "fun"......we will take it one step at a time though.

Jobs____________

I had mentioned in an earlier post(see August 31, 2007, blog) about the variety of jobs I had been involved in for the past 40+ years...of course my main one, and my college major involved Environmental Health work....I spent 20 years as a Registered Sanitarian and Environmental Health Director with both the Mercer and Van Wert County Health Departments.....Sanitarian is a glorified name for Jack of All Trades when it comes to inspecting various licensed programs for the local and state health departments.

Food establishments, water, sewer, air, rabies, housing, mobile home parks, campgrounds, are among the programs are required to inspect and/or license....in addition you have to be the "yard police"...telling folks to clean the mess the Hell up. For some reason this required a degree in either Biology or Environmental Health and a License to perform the duties.....Bureaucratic Bullshit I called it, but it paid the bills for 20 years, and hey, it was better than busting one's ass. Plus you only spent and hour or 2 in the office, the rest of the day was spent out in the field.

One interesting complaint we received was by a family in Van Wert that were forced out of their home by a "strange gas" smell. The husband ended up in the hospital, and the family claiming no action by the city, called the various news media outlets. Bottom line was, the health department and local safety director were called out....great stuff, we got to dress up like "Men on the Moon" to check out the place(reminded me of the guys in "Ghost Busters"). After checking out the place with all kinds of meters and consulting with the Ohio EPA, we ran some checks and sent samples off to the labs..........about two weeks later, we found out what the strange deadly smell was.....The idiot husband hand mixed ammonia and chemical toilet cleaners and drain cleaners together to clear up the plugged toilet bowl....What a dumbass!

Lucky the whole damn family wasn't wiped out......in 2 decades I can truly say, I met many dip sticks, and this fool was right at the top of the list.

photos{me and Rick McCoy, the Men from Mars, and my RS License, what a bargain for $75 plus 18 hours of classes each year}

Remember the Snow Bowl?

A week that saw me spend two days sitting in conferences in Akron, one day in Columbus at the VA Clinic with brother Mike....and yesterday sitting and watching The Ohio State Buckeyes defeat hated rival Michigan by a 14-3 score.

The sitting, driving, and more sitting has not been kind to my back, as my chiropractor warned me.....the Thanksgiving trip to Oconomowoc this week probably won't help either......I look at laser surgery with an open mind....knowing, if nothing shakes out in the next few weeks, a decision will have to be made.....I won't go on like this unless I have to....I am way to active at my age to go down without looking at options. When I was in my early 40s I was stubborn, and waited out the problem for years, I no longer have the patience to do that...especially with new options to open back surgery.

Back to Greenville for a couple of days Monday and Tuesday, before the Wisconsin trip.

The Snow Bowl 1950__________

Nope, don't remember Michigan's 9-3 win over Ohio State at Columbus in November of 1950....I was only 20 months old, and not quite a fan back then. But even though it was a Buckeye loss, this game is legend in the "Greatest Rivalry in College Sports".

http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/OSUvsMichigan/snowbowl.htm

51,000 showed up for this Blizzard Game....and the Anti-War zealots brag about getting 15 or 20 thousand anti-American nutjobs to show up in drag for a rally in DC.....go figure?

Anyway, yesterday's game reminded me of Woody and Bo back in the 1970s when the Rivalry was a Hate-Hate defensive war...the past few years have seen lots of offense, with John Cooper stinking up the game for Ohio State as their coach, going 2 wins 10 losses and 1 tie.....Jim Tressel has changed that the past 7 seasons, going 6 wins only 1 loss, and 5 Big Ten titles, a National Championship and a runners up.

14-3 Buckeyes, with the Defense only giving up 90 yards all day....big mouth Mike Hart, who stuck around for his Senior year, just to beat OSU, should have went pro. Chris "Beanie" Wells went for 220 yards and 2 touchdowns in miserable weather....but DEFENSE was king.

Now being a Buckeye fan is a state of mind....I didn't go to Ohio State....I hung around Athens, Nelsonville(Hocking Tech) and Wright State....the wife has her BA and MA at Wright State, the youngest picks up his BA this winter, and goes for his MA at the same school(or University of Dayton) next fall.....but even while at Ohio University, almost everybody rooted for Ohio State....on OSU-Michigan day back in the 70s, they would move the time of the OU home games, because they knew we all would be sitting in the bars watching Ohio State-Michigan, rather than in the stands watching the Bobcats......yep, you don't need to be a OSU Alumni to root for the Buckeyes....being from Ohio is usually good enough, heck, I've even got buddies from North Dakota and Wisconsin who are hard core Ohio State fans......yes indeed, it is the king of College Rivalries.

photos(photos from the "Snow Bowl" of 1950 at Columbus}

The Big One....Ohio State vs Michigan

The 104th game in the greatest rivalry in college football goes to Ann Arbor, Michigan tomorrow(Saturday)....poll after poll has claimed this to be #1. Auburn vs Alabama, So Cal vs Notre Dame, Georgia vs Tennessee, are all good ones, but for folks in Ohio and Michigan there is no doubt this is the one....a love-hate relationship that goes back to 1897 when they first played. It was a one sided affair for the first 40 or so years, thus Michigan still holds a healthy 57-40-6 advantage. Woody Hayes came to Columbus in 1951 and that changed all of that...Woody, Earle Bruce, and Jim Tressel have all owned the "Team up North" since 1951....the only glitch was a sorry decade plus under John "Chicken" Cooper in the late 1980s and through the 1990s...Cooper came to Ohio State, won a lot of games, but went 2-10-1 against the Wolves.....toss those out(which sorry to say, you can't)...and since Woody in 1951, Ohio State holds a 26-16-1 advantage.

Woody Hayes vs Bo Schembechler was a coaching war.....those two gents made the rivalry the greatest in college football.....

check out this video of the recent history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGMC2_190M

Since 1935 the game has been played on the final Saturday of the regular season......42 times it has decided the Big Ten Championship.....2007 will be no exception. The winner wins the Big 10 outright, and goes to the Rose Bowl(Ohio State still could go to the National Championship if things fall right). Since Jim Tressel took over for Cooper in 2001, OSU has dominated the series winning 5 0f 6....this will probably be Llllloyd(5 l's for loses to Tressel) Carr's final game against Ohio State.

GO BUCKS !!!!!

PREDICTION:

OSU 34

MICH 13

Joe Nuxhall dies at 79

Yesterday we get that scumbag Barry Bonds indicted of steroid use.....one of the bad guys in baseball...this morning I wake up with a pain in my back, another #2 football team(Oregon) losing out on it's opportunity to play for the national championship, and sadly an old acquaintance of mine passes on.

For those that have never heard of Joe Nuxhall, I'll do the short story...."The Ol' Left Hander" as he was called played for 16 years in the majors, 15 of those with the Reds, he was also the color voice of the Reds on radio for over 30 years, teaming with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Breneman for most of those years, still working part-time this past season. Joe is up for selection in the broadcast wing of the HOF this winter, hopefully they will do the right thing and put Joe in Cooperstown.

Joe was the youngest player ever in Major League Baseball...he pitched his first game on June 14, 1944 with the Reds, and got hammered, giving up 6 runs in less than an inning...Joe was 15 years 10 months and 6 days old....nobody will break that record. In his career, Joe won 135 games lost 117 and had a 3.90 ERA....He also hammered 15 career home runs, he was a pretty good hitting pitcher.

I interviewed Joe on many occasions, drank a few beers with him and Tom Browning(another Reds pitcher, who tossed a perfect game about 20 years ago)....about all I can say about Joe has been said, he was a good man, a good broadcaster, and a tribute to his community of Hamilton, Ohio....God Bless you Joe, Rest in Peace.

JOE NUXHALL 1928-2007

Barry Bonds......

Just got back from Akron, a rather productive meeting....Garry and I tasted a few micro brewed beers last night at Barley Corn's Irish Pub in Akron....my old radio buddy Andy, who lives with his wife and sons in Stow, Ohio, joined us for dinner, a good time was had, arguing politics and talking over old gossip and times....I felt fine this morning.....Garry just can't keep up with the old man, he was rather hung over for the start of the 2nd day session...Andy, being the smart one, gave up the alcohol about a year or so ago, and enjoyed his food with water to wash it down.

Just saw Barry Bonds was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for lying to investigators.....I put Bonds on the same level as the scumbag coach of New England, Bill Bellyache....cheaters with no personality to boot....but hey, the are still one step ahead of the lying, cheating scum we put in the White House for 8 years, Billy Bob Klinton, and the American and Euro Lefties and the press still love this bastard, who sold us down the river to China....so in my humble opinion, as much as I despise Bonds....what he did was not treason, just greed....Klinton the draft dodger and Commander-in-Thief is much worse.

OK, enough of that rant....my back held out for two days, but the ride home was not kind....so I better grab a brandy on the rocks and see if I can ease the pain....off to Columbus tomorrow with brother Mike.....and will present my Ohio State-Michigan pregame report when I return tomorrow evening.

PHOTOS{Bonds before and after...in college and his steroid days}