GIANT KATZ

Junior proudly displays a Chevy SB piston at Trader Rick's Last Outpost Garage

If you lay down on your belly, Patrick will turn you into his own personal butt-pillow

It is a quarter-past noon and 72.9 degrees F. outside and breezy and cloudy. Patrick is here eating his vegan lunch.

Random Thoughts for the Day:

Thank the Good Lord for Another beautiful day on Planet Earth!!

In the Gators' defeat of Oregon, Lee Humphrey stepped up and made SEVEN three point shots and a layup! Junior came down and watched the game with me. Patrick was ecstatic.That white guy can SHOOT! One of those NBA distance shots SHREDDED the net, causing a ten minute delay in the game! Oh, it's Great to be a Gator these days.

On to the Final Four and a rematch with UCLA...

My Bracket over at Zook Free Zone is at 98.5 %, I am alone in first place. Heh, heh. My final Four is perfect. Really sweated out Georgetown, tho--they won by TWELVE POINTS in OVER TIME!!

Speaking of UNC, their team mascot is in bad shape in the hospital. Fred Thompson, subbing for Paul Harvey, stated the Mascot was "hit by an SUV"--this is one of Rush's pet peeves, athropomorphizing SUV's as killers and planet wreckers. Sort of like killers who if they ever served in the USMC are always characterized as "ex-marines" in the drive-by media....

And Speaking of Fred Thompson, he is looking better and better to us as a viable and electable alternative to the RINO's the Republicans have put up so far for POTUS. We had real good luck with the last actor we elected, who is now rated by honest historians as one of our GREATEST Presidents.

This terrorist Moslem State, the former Persia, has kidnapped British sailors off british vessels.

As we know , they are so good at kidnapping. Remember all our people they held for years until the very day Ronald Reagan took office? Remember those days? They really dodged a big ass bullet that day.

I doubt Iran would mess with a US Navy sailor with a republican as president. We have a history of getting majorly pissed off at messing with our sailors.

Fought a WAR over it in 1812 with Britain for impressing people off our ships. Fought a long bloody civil WAR when some rebels fired on a Navy Ship in 1861. Fought a WAR with Spain and took over their colonies when they blew up our battleship. Occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico for a YEAR when they detained some sailors for a few hours and we didn't like the tone of their apology. Fought a GREAT WAR against Germany when they sank a few of our ships. Fought Another WAR with Japan when they sunk our big boats in Hawaii and threw in Germany for good measure. Fought a war with North Vietnam when they shot at some of our boats in the Tonkin Gulf.

I don't know about Britain, but if Iran knows anything of our history, they'll target something other than sailors when they attack US...

I've got some sage fatherly advise for Peyton Manning (The tennessee quarterback who lost to the Gators on FOUR occasions). You are bright, handsome, talented, charasmatic. You may play in the NFL another ten years, or suffer a debilitating injury tonite. So prepare now for your post NFL career.

Sure, you might coach if that's your bent. You'd be a shoo-in as a color commentator, and you should do a stint at that.

However, lay a groundwork NOW for a HOLLYWOOD career and/or or a POLITICAL career. Plastics. You heard it here first.

And finally, had a goofy dream the other night and Patrick was in it. I was hiking somewhere with somebody and apparently wasn't paying close enuff attention to the wee dog (In the real world I never take my eye off him...) and he took off and started chasing these enormous wooley cats.

He chased them into some lady's house and she said I better get him or she was going to blast him with her shotgun. I explained to her that he liked to chase them, but just sniff them and play with them when they stopped. I chased him down these long corridors of terrazzo, like in a video game. Then, there was a gentle disolve, to a hallmark setting of us all sitting around a coffee table on pillows on the floor looking at scrapbooks (of cat pics?) with the cats and patrick cooing at each other under the table. Don't ask.

From the Patriot Post:

“Everyone knows Hillary Rodham Clinton, and everyone has a different reaction to her. Some find her as irritating as fingernails on a chalkboard. Some find that she makes their skin crawl. Some run screaming from the room. And some want to drink a gallon of rat poison while lying across a railroad track.

The conventional wisdom is that the former first lady will be a formidable presidential candidate because she has lots of money, veteran campaign aides, a shrewd political sense and a close connection to a president beloved by Democrats.

But those may be nothing next to a couple of fairly major factors operating against her.

The first is that many people in both parties see her as ideologically repellent. Conservatives think she’s an arrogant busybody with an addiction to big government. The Left regards her as a cynical trimmer who can’t admit when she’s wrong.

The second is that many people, again in both parties, just can’t stand her. You want a uniter, not a divider? Hillary has a way of uniting people who ordinarily would be pelting each other with eggs.

That explains the appeal of the new YouTube ad, modeled on Apple’s famous ‘1984’ Super Bowl commercial, which portrays her as a blandly sinister Big Sister on a giant screen, uttering phony platitudes to an army of robotic slaves. It ends happily when a blonde female athlete sprints in and hurls a sledgehammer at the screen, obliterating the image... As the campaign proceeds, some people will be hoping for her to succeed. But I’m betting a lot more will be rooting for the blonde with the sledgehammer.” —Steve Chapman

Headline: Global Warming Causes Earth to burn up in Fiery Inferno. Polar Bears Hit Worst.

UPDATE: We just heard on the radio that the UNC Mascot Jason died this morning. Our prayers go out to his family and the Tarheels.

GO GATORS -- BEAT UCK-LAH!!

PARDON SCOOTER NOW