The Ugly American

Email message of the week...

2008-05-22T12:22:00.003-02:00

I got an email today, that had two sayings on it that I thought were pretty good and worth sharing....

Every sixty seconds you spend angry, upset or mad, is a full minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.

I've got a long weekend and I plan on living it just like these two sayings. Hope your weekend is just as good!

The war you probably don't know about...

2008-05-16T10:29:00.003-02:00

There's a war brewing down here in the south and let me tell you, it's not pretty.

Apparently, Myrtle Beach, SC thinks their shit don't stink. This web site has been all over the local news here. Myrtle Beach has a lot of nerve saying they're better than Virginia Beach! Just because they have more golf courses, lower hotel and restaurant prices and a local amusement park doesn't mean they're better than us. I mean, come on, where else can you sit on the beach and watch Navy FA-18 Hornets fly so close over your head that you can tell the pilots eye color! Where else can those same planes fly so close that unless you're speaking in sign language you must cease your conversation until they pass.

And let's not forget about the family friendly atmosphere in VB! Watch your mouth you pig! You can also be fined if you drive down Atlantic Ave to many times in an hour. I never really understoodd WHY people would want to drive down this road more than once an hour. You can't see the beach, it's lined with nothing but hotels and shopping anyway! They even pipe in elevator music and turn on tanning lights at closing time on Atlantic Ave in the summer time!

But what's really great about this is that VB is fighting back! I mean, take a look at the new Virginia Beach tourism online ad. Who can argue after seeing this which beach community is better?

I just thought you folks should know about this war. It could get even uglier soon.

Have a nice day!

Got this in an email...

2008-05-13T13:09:00.003-02:00

I thought I should share. Yeah, I know, it'd be easier if it was US cities, but it's not. Try anyway!

Origin of the argument, or, why some people get so nasty when discussing Evolution and ID.

2008-05-12T14:04:00.004-02:00

I’ve read several articles recently that discuss Intelligent Design. I read these articles on a site called BlogCritics (BC) where comments are allowed and offered. It seems that every time this discussion comes up it gets extremely nasty.

Those that follow the largely accepted Theory of Evolution seem to get extremely nasty towards the folks that follow the ID theory. Now I know that there are those, let’s call them evolutionists, that will say that ID is not a theory, only a concept, if they’ll even give it that much credit, or even worse, a fairy tale.

Well, dictionary.com defines a theory as contemplation or speculation, or guess or conjecture. That’s two of the definitions anyway. The other ones are a lot more wordy, but mean basically the same thing. Using those definitions, Evolution as a theory, could be a guess or maybe even speculation.

Let’s look at these a little closer. Darwins' theory says that through a process called “natural selection” organisms slowly mutate over time and as some of these mutations aid in survival they stick around and those traits that aren’t beneficial to survival end up dying off. Sounds good. I mean, fish don’t need fins if they’re on land. Anybody that’s ever fished knows how well they work out of water when you bring one into the boat. I suppose this means that some day hippos will develop fins, since they spend more of their lives in water than out of it.

Darwin rarely defended his views in public. Apparently he had a gentleman named Thomas Huxley who defended his positions for him. All this tells me is that the argument has been nasty since the beginning and from the evidence I’ve seen, it’s not getting any nicer. But even Huxley had problems with Darwins’ theory. He didn’t subscribe to Darwins’ idea that things happened gradually over time, but that species could make leaps in change, or saltations, giant leaps in evolutionary change. This seems to make a little more sense. I mean, that fish without fins is gonna have a helluva time in the water and the one with fins is gonna have a helluva time on land! But if one was born without fins right off the bat, he or she would have that capability to walk up the beach and start living a dry life right off the bat.

But it would seem that even Sir Charles was a little confused by the whole thing. He once said, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." So, even Darwin questioned his own theory.

Now, let’s look at the idea of Intelligent Design. According to the website intelligentdesignnetwork.org, the theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID is thus a scientific disagreement with the core claim of evolutionary theory that the apparent design of living systems is an illusion.

It’s a pretty wordy way of saying that evolution didn’t happen by accident. The question then becomes, why do so many people get so heated over this opinion? Why is it so impossible to believe that we, like Horton’s Who’s, are just some little world buried in a dandelion? A Petri dish experiment or some alien kids ant farm?

It seems to me that ID’s main purpose in life is to try to “explain” those things about us that are unexplainable. Why are we the only creatures on the planet that are self aware? On the website called actionbioscience.org, there are three very interesting point counterpoint type articles that make the arguments for and against both theories. The thing I find very interesting is that all the arguments for ID are very strongly argued against, but there always seems to be a statement along the lines of this… Can’t he see past the example to the principle? That the first demonstration of a powerful genetic mechanism happened to be a nonflying fly is irrelevant. What is a powerful genetic mechanism? Why can’t it be ID? Or a statement like this… variations that appear to be the result of…How scientific is the term appears to be the result of?

As a result of the little bit of research I did to write this little piece I think I’m more confused than ever. I’m pretty convinced that evolution has a lot to do with who and what we are in the grand scheme of things. But another part of me really wants to believe that there really is a grand scheme to this whole thing we call life. That it isn’t all just one big accident.

I’ve come a long way since my days in Sisters Mary’s science class. A place where they never attempted to reconcile the differences between Darwin’s theory and that first book in the bible. I’d imagine there’s a good reason they never tried…it just can’t be done.

And as far as why people get so nasty about the discussion, all I can figure out is that both sides are convinced that the other side is completely wrong and completely foolish for believing what they believe. Personally, I'm gonna take a little bit of both. I say they're both right. I believe Sir Charles probably would have agreed with me.

I guess this makes it official...

2008-05-02T15:40:00.003-02:00

I received this in the mail today. It's official now, they can never recall me to active duty again...

It sure took them a while to get it to me! I mean, it's not like they couldn't find me. But hey, I got it and now it's offical! I'm, as they say down here in the south, retard navy! Hooray for me!

Your tax dollars at work...

2008-04-25T09:37:00.006-02:00

I'm down south this week working with the CG and I thought I'd share some things with you...Meet the U.S. Coast Guard's newest assets. This is USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750). The first of at least three cutters of the Legend class. It's named after the first Commandant of the Coast Guard.
This is the Bertholf's LRI or Long Range Interceptor. I got to ride on this powerful little beast yesterday. I won't say how fast she goes, but I will tell you it has twin jet drives powered by twin 600 horse power turbo diesels. One of the coolest things about this pair is the way the LRI is launched and recovered.
If you look at this picture of the Bertholf, you can see that the transom has what looks like a door. That's exactly what it is and they open it and run that thirty six foot boat right up onto the cutter.
This last picture is a picture of the USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751). She's the second of the class and has a little bit of work left...

The Cutters are CODAG powered. That's Combined Diesel and Gas. Basically a turbine and a diesel engine hooked up to the same gear system which powers twin 5 bladed props. I won't tell you the top speed of these either, but I'm told that when they're underway screaming through the water that you actually have to go outside to see if the ship is moving because they just ride that smooth...

All of these assets are loaded up with the latest and greatest in electronics. The biggest berthing area I saw on board was an 8 man stateroom. Back when I was in the navy my rack, or bed for you non-navy types was in an 84 man berthing compartment. These guys got it made!

Did they say animal cruelty???

2008-04-24T10:40:00.004-02:00

According to CBS3.com, authorities announced Moorestown, NJ Officer Robert Melia Jr., 38, has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty after allegedly engaging in sex acts with cows between June and December of 2006.

I'm sorry, but I find this very amusing...the fact that the only charge they could come up with was animal cruelty for this is really what made me laugh. And why only four counts? Or why more than one count? Who told the police he only raped four cows? And did they ask the cows if they were willing participants? How old are these cows?

I would imagine the cows just weren't satisfied and that must be the cruel part!!!

Finally, a weekend worthy of my boat...

2008-04-22T19:45:00.006-02:00

I spent Friday on the water...I'd say I was fishing, but you might not believe me. I mean, I have no proof...

...but I did go out and watch some boat racing in Portsmouths' City Park on Saturday.

This first picture is of a class of boat called JS...it's short for Jersey Speed Skiff. I'm adding a link to a web site called Jersey Speed Skiffs dot Com I added the particular picture I did because that's my dad holding onto the oh shit handle like his life depended on it. Back in the day, my pop was one crazy dude. He raced in a different class of boat called an SK or Ski Racing Runabout. It was a 17 foot boat with a monster Chevy motor in it that went about 120Mph. And in between heats, when he was feeling exceptionally crazy he'd ride in one of these with his friend Herbie. I'm adding this link to show you that I'm not lying about my pop. If you look at the caption under the picture, you'll see my dads name. Trust me, it's my pop, I ain't that crazy!

I put the next pic in to show you how low in the water a hydroplane sits when they're not running. If you compare it to the picture below, you'll see a big difference. They really get up out of the water. I just never got that into the hydros I mean, after all...my pop was a flat bottom boat racer.

I think what was probably one of the more amuzing things on Saturday was the fact that the fastest boat around probably wasn't even in the races. The picture below is an ocean racer, probably about 39 feet long and if you look closely at it, well not all that closely, you'll see 3..yeah that's right...3 300 horsepower outboards. That's 900 horsepower!!!

...and one ridiculous gas bill!

got this in an email...and you know i like to share!

2008-04-22T18:13:00.001-02:00

The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

As John Steinbeck once said:

1. Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

2. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

3. I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

4. When seconds count, the cops are are several minutes away.

5. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

6. An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

7. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. 'Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?' 'No Ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.'

8. Beware the man who only has one gun. He Probably Knows How To Use It!!!

But wait, there's more!

I was once asked by a lady visiting if I had a gun in the house. I said I did. She said 'Well I certainly hope it isn't loaded!' To which I said, of course it is loaded, can't work without bullets!' She then asked, 'Are you that afraid of some one evil coming into your house?'

My reply was, 'No, not at all. I am not afraid of the house catching fire either, but I have fire extinguishers around, and they are all loaded too.'

To which I'll add, having a gun in the house that isn't loaded is like having a car in the garage without gas in the tank. I'm a firm believer of the 2nd Amendment! If you are too, please forward. If not, then lock you door and dial 911...................................then pray!

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - General MacArthur

I guess it's time to start spewing...

2008-04-17T09:19:00.002-02:00

I didn’t want to…okay, I did, but I wanted to wait a little while longer. I’m tired of hearing that what these guys say or do isn’t relevant to their campaigns!

Listening to someone running for president lie about being under sniper fire or saying people cling to religion and guns as a way of coping with life because they’re bitter IS important. It tells you a lot about a person I think.

Let’s look at some of these…

We’ll start with Obama, just because his list is the longest. The first thing I heard was when his wife said, that this was the first time in her adult life that she was proud to be an American…Oh goody! I feel so much better knowing that people are helping her feel proud of the place that gives her the right to say she’s never felt proud to be from! Then I heard from her pastor and realized why she felt the way she did. Her pastor has been filling her and her family’s head with racist crap for the last twenty years!

Of course, Obama never heard any of this…only the good stuff the guy said over twenty years. My mother always called that selective hearing. I can remember her yelling at me when I was a kid…”you can hear those damned ice cream bells, but you can’t hear me calling you for dinner.” Years later, when the navy taught me about the physics of sound I understood that it was the tone of her voice that I was deaf too, I mean come on, mom’s a great cook!

The latest thing I heard from Obama is how middle America “clings” to guns or religion as a way of coping with the stresses of life because they’re bitter. I just love it when someone who makes $4 million a year tells the other folks who probably make more than that what makes middle America bitter. It’s like a plumber diagnosing you with a heart problem.

Maybe, just maybe, what makes middle America bitter are elitist assholes like Obama or Kerry or Romney or Gore or Clinton who just don’t get us, who can’t possibly understand what makes middle America tick because they’ve never been a part of it and have no desire to understand it either. I could add a bunch more names to that list…but what’s funny about it is that most of them are democrats and they’re the people who claim to stand up for the little guy.

Then we have Hillary and her misstatement. How do you misremember sniper fire? Let’s be real here folks! I had a gun pulled on me once and trust me when I tell you, it’s something you won’t ever misremember! I tend to believe that bullets flying over your head are pretty memorable too! But should we be surprised? Her husband looked all of straight in the eye…wagged his finger at all of us on national TV and said…”I did not have sexual relations with that woman…Monica Lewinsky!” It seemed to work for him, so why not for her?

I’m tired of it I tell ya. I just finished watching the first six episodes of the John Adams mini-series on HBO. All I can think is that if Adams and Jefferson and Washington saw today what they had created 200 years ago, they’d probably want to raze the whole thing!!!

Someone explain to me why I don't see that same elitist attitude from the son of a navy Admiral!

I never would have typed this today if I hadn't been flipping channels in between innings last night. Maybe I outta just stick to watching sports.

Have a nice day!

Bits & Pieces: If I didn't have dogs.....

2008-04-15T10:46:00.001-02:00

Got this in an email and thought it fit pretty well...
Bits & Pieces: If I didn't have dogs.....

A couple of rants for the day...

2008-04-11T12:26:00.001-02:00

Sometimes, I probably shouldn't read the paper...I get so fired up about things...

I live in a barn. “Why would you say that Andy?”, you ask. Well, my house has the roof shape of a barn, as do a few others in my cookie cutter neighborhood. I could have lived in a different house, a more expensive house, but I chose the barn because it was what I could afford to buy when I went house hunting.

Now I keep hearing the three people running for president talking about bailing people out that are at risk of foreclosure on their homes. How is that my fault and why is the government going to use my tax money to bail these STUPID people out of their dilemmas? If you’re dumb enough to buy a house you could never afford then you deserve what you get.

Here’s the deal. Whenever I’ve been house hunting in the past I never relied on what the Mortgage broker told me I “qualified” for, but on what I figured I could afford as a house payment. Using a very rough formula of something along the lines of a $200K house is a $2000 a month house payment. Can I afford $2000 a month? If the answer is no then I guess I’ll shop for a $150K house. Just because the broker tells you that you qualify for a $1,000,000 house, doesn’t mean you should go out and buy a $1,000,000 house.

I’ve read a few times that there are approximately two million people that are in danger of losing their homes because of this mortgage fiasco. That means that we have three people running for the highest elected position in the country pandering to about three percent of the population. If I hadn’t decided a long time ago to keep this blog PG rated I might say fuck them! Somebody bail me out! Gas in my boat is costing me an arm and a leg!

And now, let’s talk about health care. I’m reading more and more about universal health care in this country. Another crock of you know what! My family and I get health care for $460 a year. “How do you get health care so cheap Andy?” I hear you asking. I earned it, that’s how! A lot of people in this country want something for nothing and that just ain’t the way it works. You want government furnished health care than do something to earn it. You don’t get something for nothing in the good ole’ U.S of A.

Why do I have to pay for your health care? I already paid for your freedom, now you want my tax dollars to pay for everything else you think you need. Get off your collective asses and do something to earn it.

Anyway, I haven’t ranted in a while, so I thought it was about time. I feel better now.

This may explain a few things....

2008-04-02T01:56:00.001-02:00

Ever wonder how someone could sit in church for twenty years and never hear the racist rants of his preacher?

The Airline Bill of Rights...Shot down like an old fighter plane!!!

2008-03-26T09:45:00.000-02:00

As someone who spends a lot of time in airports and on airplanes the news I heard yesterday really disturbed me. The state of New York had passed something called the passenger bill of rights and the U.S. Second Court of Appeals shot it down yesterday. This law was asking for nothing more than for airlines to give passengers basic services if they are delayed on the tarmac for more than three hours. We’re talking about very basic here, working toilets, food and water!

This decision seems like one that would come from the ninth court, not the second! It amazes me; the federal government can bail out all the airlines, but screw the little guy! They give two shits about the people on planes. Last year, Jet Blue Airlines left passengers stranded on the tarmac in New York for over 3 hours and when the state tries to do something about it, because the Congress is too stupid or callous to act, the Federal government shoots them down!

The Court of Appeals called the goals of the law “laudable”, which is another word for really nice, they said only the federal government can regulate the airlines. The federal government can’t seem to regulate a damn thing these days!

Look, don’t get me wrong, I’m one of the first to scream about too many laws, but this is needed! These airlines are constantly bending the numbers to make themselves look good. They’ll pull a plane away from a gate just so they can keep there on time departure numbers looking good, then the plane just goes out in the middle of the airfield somewhere and sits. I’ve been on planes that have done this before. I’ve also had airlines highjack my luggage, give away my seat and pretty much just about anything else you can think of short of bending me over the seat. They, and when I say they I mean ALL US airlines, don’t feed anyone anymore. They really do very little when it comes to making passengers comfortable. It’s all about the bottom line. The airlines know that when it comes to travel they have us bent over that seat and they don’t give a damn.

The first flight I ever took was when I was 17 and heading to Chicago for boot camp. There seemed to be plenty of legroom in the back of the plane back then and I’m still six foot tall. On planes these days, six foot gets you knees into the seat in front of you! Pray that person doesn’t decide to recline! Back on that first flight, I remember being treated pretty well. These days it feels like cattle being led to slaughter! If they could, I believe they’d stack us like cordwood!

I was delayed in Boston last year because of weather. I understand that and I accept it. What I don’t accept is that after the airline tells me that I’m stuck over night they can’t get my luggage back to me so I can go to a hotel with my stuff. Along those same lines I’ve been told I was to late to get on a plane because my luggage wouldn’t make it to the plane and if I didn’t fly with my luggage I couldn’t fly at all. But when I got to Norfolk after that over night delay in Boston a little over a year ago, my luggage was already there! I guess maybe my luggage can fly without me!

You know, sometimes I think that the idea of taking out the entire congress and starting from scratch would really be a great idea, but then I realize, with states that constantly re-elect people like Teddy Kennedy and Robert Byrd we’d just fuck the whole thing up again anyway!

Got this in an email...it made me laugh...

2008-03-12T10:22:00.001-02:00

Two women were playing golf.

One teed off and watched in horror as her ball
headed directly toward a foursome of men playing the
next hole.

The ball hit one of the men. He immediately
clasped his hands together at his groin, fell to the
ground and proceeded to roll around in agony.

The woman rushed down to the man, and
immediately began to apologize. 'Please allow me
to help. I'm a Physical Therapist and I know I could
relieve your pain if you'd allow me,'she told him.

'Oh, no, I'll be all right. I'll be fine in a
few minutes,' the man replied. He was in obvious
agony, lying in the fetal position, still clasping
his hands together at his groin.

At her persistence, however, he finally
allowed her to help.

She gently took his hands away and laid them
to the side, loosened his pants and put her hands
inside. She administered tender and artful massage
for several long moments and asked,'How does that
feel'?

He replied:

'It feels great, but I still think my thumb's
broken.'

It's not an easy thing to do...

2008-03-05T11:29:00.002-02:00

I was up in NY about a week ago visiting family...well, not really visiting, there was a death in the family...but one night, my brother-in-law made a statement that got this look out of my daughter!

I'd love to tell you what he said, but like I said before, I try to keep this PG rated. It pretty much got a rise out of everybody. Luckily, somebody snapped a picture of my daughter. I figured I'd share it with you.

Let's see if this works...

2008-02-15T10:29:00.000-02:00

Got this from YouTube...It's comical!!!

Got this in an email...

2008-02-15T10:14:00.000-02:00

It's very well written and might even make you laugh once or twice...

I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by
now) tricked it.

While I kept it busy tearing the bejesus out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.

Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp.

I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal.
This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy.

I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.

The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head.

Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.

I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.

So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope so that they can be somewhat equal to the Prey......

Check this out!

2008-02-11T22:24:00.001-02:00

Never tried this before...

2008-02-11T20:42:00.000-02:00

I took these from the airplane window. The lake pictures were taken outside of Las Vegas. I wish I knew the name of the lake. Looks like it might be pretty nice in the summer.
I thought it might be Lake Tahoe, but I suck at identifying aerial targets. So, if you know, let me know!
This last one was taken just a short while after we talk off from Anchorage, AK.

Alaska is an incredible place! Some of the most awesome scenery ever!

Remember, clicking the pics opens them in another window much bigger!

What an awesome bird!

2008-02-05T22:54:00.000-02:00

In 1967 the Bald Eagle was placed on the endangered species list...Honestly, I think I might have seen one of these beautiful birds in the wild before this week...
As you can see from these pictures, they're far from endangered up here in Alaska...
...actually, they were removed from the endangered species list just last year!
After work this afternoon I decided to go back to one of the spots where these birds seem to congregate and see if I couldn't get a few really special pictures of this magnificent animal...
...How'd I do?
I'm not sure I want to tell you where I found them...it might taint your opinion of them...

...alright...I'll tell you. They like to hang out in two places around here on Kodiak Island. One of the places is around the local cannery...but that's not where I got these pictures...These birds were on the other end of town, hanging out in the trees around the local land fill!!!

But you know what? I don't care! They're still awesome to watch. If it wasn't so freaking cold, I'd probably have stayed out there watching them even longer! But even in the beautiful sunny day that I experienced here today, it was still only in the 20's! Yeah, I'm a sissy! So what! Wanna fight?

Hey...guess what...the Giants won the Superbowl!!! But I guess Eagles are still cool!

Have you ever seen a Bald Eagle in the wild???

2008-02-04T23:11:00.000-02:00

They are very beautiful birds. There are so many of them here it's crazy!
I've seen plenty of Bald Eagles, but I don't think I had ever seen one in the wild until yesterday. A local told me they've developed a taste for small dogs...guess my little dog Hazel better watch out or I'll bring her up here!!!
I'm kidding! I wouldn't do that to her...maybe one of my kids, but never one of my dogs!!!

2008-02-04T20:40:00.000-02:00

I went out for a drive this morning...late morning, 'cause the sun doesn't come up early around here. It doesn't get light here until around 9 AM.

I found this little post office, it wasn't even open!

Then, I came around a corner and this big ole' bison was just standing there! He just kinda looked at me, stood there for a few minutes until I asked him if he was gonna move or not and then he just slowly walked away...
The views are really spectacular around this little island. I was constantly pulling over to the side of the road to take pictures and catch my breath!
And it's not very often that I see snow on the beach...besides, back home it just look like sand anyway! All the beaches here have these dark rocks. I haven't seen a beach with sand on it yet...although, as far as I'm concerned, the water's never gonna be warm enough to swim in anyway!

Yeah Baby!!!

2008-02-04T13:38:00.000-02:00

picture courtesy of giants.com

My GIANTS are the Champions of the world!!!!!!!

Most of you doubted...some of us didn't...I'm gonna enjoy wearing all the GIANTS gear I packed on this trip!

I'm not gonna wear that hat anymore...it's old and outdated...a collectors item I guess. Something tells me I'm not gonna find a Superbowl Champion t-shirt up here in Alaska, but I'll surely find one for myself and probably one for the Mug too. She's been right there with me rooting on OUR team.

What can you say but...WOW! Eleven straight road wins! The ultimate football road warriors!

What's better than a perfect regular season?

A monster upset of the team with the perfect record in the Superbowl, that's what's better!!!!!

Have a Great Giants day!!!

For sale...cheap!

2008-02-04T02:05:00.000-02:00

Hey...I have this hat....it's in pretty good shape...but it seems to just be wrong!

I'm in Alaska this week, so I can't see the faces of the Giants doubters back home...and I really wish I could...

Makes that tattoo of mine look all that much better now!!!

I guess that Green Run kid knew what he was talking about when he predicted a Giants win earlier in the week...Plaxico got a lot of grief for his prediction and he was pretty close on what he called as the final score...I think he said it was gonna be 21-17...well, 17-14 works too!

Hey...to all you Patriot fans...18-1 ain't a bad record....

GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!