Random Q Thoughts

· Hey Patriots fans, the world is not out to get you. So please shut and saying everyone is a hater against you. Loving in New England I keep hearing this and keep hearing people in New England bring up Spygate. I also listen to national people and they don’t bring it up as much an Pats fans. Did Bill Bellicheck get caught doing something he was told not to? Yes. Did he pay the price? Yes, no do like he has and move on. He is a great coach, one of the top 5 of all time in my opinion. But seems like New England fans need something to whine about so have to keep brining it up. Sit back and enjoy one of the greatest teams ever in football. Not everyone is against you, sit and watch ESPN, and the Fox and CBS pre game shows they praise the Pats, sure one or two guys here there might say something negative, but the vast majority praise the Pats. I know this wont happen as most people have to jump all over the one guy who says something stupid. This is once and lifetime thing the Pats are doing, so why can’t you enjoy it?
· I am sitting here watching the release the release of the “Mitchell report” about steroids use in baseball. To me this report is so full of holes and is really not the substantial. There is a lot of hearsay and information received third hand. Of course a lot of this has to go back on the players who refused to talk to Mitchell. The man source was a weight trainer who worked for the Blue Jays and Yankees, well of course you are going to get more players from his clients. Most teams did not have this against them so some of there players did not get named. The Players Union should be ashamed of itself for telling its players not to cooperate. So they need to take a lot of the blame for anyone who might be on the list who is not a steroids user.
· I know everyone in Boston is focused on the Pats and Celtics, and with good reason. But need to take a look at the Bruins. They have the second best record in the Eastern Conference right now, pretty impressive after last years debacle of a season.
· Bobby Petrino is a huge scumbag. He quit as the Atlanta Falcons head coach 13 games into his first season, and then did not have the guts to face the team to tell them. He also lied to the owner of the team less then 24 hours before he quit, to take a job in college. He told Arthur Blank on Monday he was not talking to Arkansas. Then that night he took the job. If I had a son looking at schools I would be very weary of him looking at Arkansas, I would not trust anything Petrino says, and would not feel comfortable having this scumbag of a so called man leading my child.
· Another reason Joe Paterno is the man in college football came out last week. After a half century, yes that is correct, at Penn State his salary was finally made public. To this point it never was. It came out that is making a little over 500 thousand as coach for the Nittany Lions. Sure that is a lot of money, but when you look at scumbag like Bobby Petrino making over 3 million to coach Arkansas, and he never won anything. Peterno should be making a hell of lot more then that. But he doesn’t and does not complain about it. He actually gives a good amount of that money back to the school and actually lives in the same small 2 bedroom house he has for over the last 40 years. Papa Joe will always be the man.
· I have been watching the Celtics a lot so far this year, and have to say I have been highly impressed with them. Of course everyone points to Pierce, Allen and Garenett as the reason why they are 18-2, and they would be correct for the most part. But the other members of the team has stepped up when needed to. The knock on them going into the year was that after the big 3 they had no depth, well that has been proven wrong so far.
When did boxing become so irrelevant? It use to be that a heavyweight championship fight meant something. Well now I cant even tell you who the heavyweight champions are, that is one of the problems there are to many champions. Also paying $50 to see it on pay per view cant help

The Q's vote goes to...............

Well today is Dec 13th and the New Hampshire primary is and the New Hampshire primary that is only 26 days away. After over 7 months of hard and sometimes over the top campaigning from the all of the Presidential candidates, I have finally decided on who I am voting for in the primary. I have gone back and forth between many of the candidates this process started before most even put their hat in the ring. There were some candidates that did intrigued me going into the process, and later turned me off to them. On the Democrat side I looked at a couple of different options. One of them was Bill Richardson the Governor of New Mexico. I was interested in his experience as governor, Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the UN. I did some paper in school about the lead up to the Iraq war and read many statements by Richardson from when he was at the UN criticizing Iraq and claims they had a WMD program. But now he has changed all that and tried to hard to get the left wing part of the party and calls for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, so he lost me there, Which is a shame he does have the credentials for hold the office. I still have a feeling he will be a strong contender for the VP slot on the Democratic side. I also took a look at John Edwards, the more and more I looked at him the more I was turned off to him, he comes off to me as what he is, a slimy lawyer. He is great at telling you what is wrong and who to blame, but I don’t trust him as far as I can throw him, and as I get older that isn’t to far. Like everyone else I looked at Barak Obama. I will be the first to admit he is very charismatic and does great on the stump. But to me he seems high on style and low on substance. He seems like the popular kid in school, everyone likes him and he great to talk to. But his he the one you want to do your homework or you can trust to get the job done, most of the time no. He might be a great candidate in a 4 or 8 years, but to me its not his time. He needs to get more substance to him.
On the republican side I went back and forth between many people. Would have to say none really grabbed my attention. Looked at Rudy Giuliani hard, I do agree with him on some issues and think he would be a tough man to beat, he did do a good job as NY mayor, but he didn’t sell me on himself. The same could be said of Mitt Romney, he has a good background, but there seems to be something missing there. Both Rudy and Mitt came off bad in a few debates to me, they came off as childish and not well behaved. I was also intrigued when Fred Thompson entered the race. But he has probably run the worst campaign ever. He came in with so much fanfare and potential but fell flat very quick. He seems like he thinks the job should just be given to him and he doesn’t have to go out and work for it. Well being a lifetime resident of New Hampshire and seeing many Presidential elections in my life, that does not fly here. Found it funny when I was talking to friend about the election and he said he was looking at Thompson but since he wasn’t running anymore he wasn’t sure who he was voting for, I had to tell him he was still running. That should say a lot right there.
So after about of year of going back and forth I have finally decided who gets the all important vote of the Q. That person will be John McCain. I will admit I was not a big fan of John McCain the last couple of years. To me he has seemed like a one trick pony since 2000 with campaign reform. To me that is not that high of an issue. But watching him over the last couple of months I have really turned on that. He seems to be a man of high principle. He has high values and sticks to them, but will also listen to others and will admit when he is wrong. He came off bad in May over the whole debate in congress over illegal immigration. His side came out on the negative side of the vote and public opinion. He has since came out and admitted he has listened to the people and will change his approach to the issue. He also stuck by his guns over Iraq, he was one of the first to call for the surge strategy while most criticized him over and said we should withdraw troops and not add more. Now McCain is being shown that he has the right idea along time ago, the surge is working. If President Bush would have listened to Senator McCain back then we would be further along in Iraq. For the last 17 years there has been a lot of partisan politics. When Bill Clinton was President the republicans were after him, and for the last 7 years the Democrats have been nothing but nasty towards President Bush. Some of the criticize on both Presidents was justified but a lot of it for both of them wasn’t, and was just petty stuff and just mean spirited by petty people. I believe John McCain has shown he can work in a bi-partisan way and would be the best agent to help bring most of the people together. Sure not everyone will agree with some of stance on stuff, I know I don’t agree 100% with him but there has never been a politician I agree 100% with. But I believe John McCain would demand the respect of the people who disagree with him, and will listen to him, and he will listen to them. Now is the perfect time for John McCain to be President. My heart is telling me to vote for McCain, Unfortunately my head is telling me the 08 election will be business as usual and he will not be given the nomination. The nomination will probably go who ever yells at the other side the loudest and is able to call the other side the most names. But I will vote with my heart and will cast my ballot on Jan 8th to John McCain, and hope that he can somehow get the nomination so I can continue my support for him. I would suggest that is anyone out there is sick of politics as usual and want a true decent man to be President take a look at John McCain, I don’t think you will be sorry you did.

25 reasons Q had decided to vote for John McCain

Well I have been going back and for over the last year on who I was going to vote for in the NH primaries, well found this and it just might have made up my mind :)
1. Dick Cheney's "secret, undisclosed location"? Crouching behind John McCain.
2. North Korea's nuke program began afer Kim Jong-Il bought one of John McCain's toenail clippings on eBay and accidentally dropped it into a nuclear reactor.
3. Nostradamus tried to predict the rise of John McCain, but the thought alone killed him
4. Teddy Roosevelt actually said, "Speak softly and carry picture of John McCain."
5. Rudy Giuliani once invited John McCain to New York City, and all crime instantly ceased.
6. Chuck Norris is John McCain's decoy.
7. Mitt Romney's secret of success: On day one, warn all managers: "Perform, or I'll give you to John McCain."
8. The original pirate flag was a drawing of John McCain's face, but it was so terrifying the crew lept overboard every time it was raised. The skull and crossbones was created as a less frightening alternative.
9. Hillary Clinton's opposition research paper on John McCain is only five words long: "If he is nominated, quit."
10. John McCain was once bitten by a cobra. It died instantly.
11. Ninjas wear black so John McCain won't see them.
12. Women wear pink so he will.
13. Santa Claus has three lists: Naugty. Nice. John McCain.
14. The Vietnamese word for "tough" is "McCain."
15. John McCain's plan for U.S. energy independence is to plug himself into the power grid for one minute a day.
16. Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence read, ". . . all men are created equal, except John McCain."
17. The commander of the U.S.S. Intrepid's plan in case his ship ran out of ammo was to put John McCain in a cannon and fire him at the enemy.
18. The devil went down to Georgia because John McCain was in Arizona.19. Nails think of themselves as "tough as John McCain."
20. Instead of waterboarding terror suspects, John McCain plans to stare at them until they talk.
21. John Edwards brushes his hair each morning so he'll look great in case he runs into John McCain.
22. When John McCain was a baby, he dug a hole in his backyard. Today we call it the Panama Canal.
23. Aircraft carriers are so big because they need to be able to carry John McCain.
24. Ken Burns was going to make a film about John McCain's life, but he realized the story was so incredible no one would believe it.
25. If John McCain thinks about you, you'll experience total happiness all day long.

The return of Rock!!

Well last night (12/10) there were 20,000 lucky people in London who got to experience true rock music. Those 20,000 people were the lucky ones out of 11 million who put in for Led Zeppelin tickets. This was the first time in over 25 years that Zeppelin played a full concert together, of course minus the great late John Bonham. Bonham’s son Jason filled in for his father and from everything I read did an outstanding job. With the huge void in rock music it to, it is great to see the legendary band playing together. Most bands are gone before you even know their name or know the song they are playing. Here is hoping the rumors of a tour are true. I know I will do my best t o catch one of their concerts. There are two bands I would have loved to seen, that is Zeppelin and the original Queen, and with the great Freddie Mercury gone that will never happen. So here is hoping I can get to see at least one. I know it would not be the same as in their heyday, but would beat anything out there now. Here are a few clips I found of the show, enjoy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3G_JTMuHOQk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ztCR6n5UrUI