Well most of the people who I know have left Xanga, but I thought I’d start again. Ok, I admit I left to, but I just had to take a break, a little longer than I thought.  Quick updates I graduated FAU last December finally. I have new cousins that were born 2 males and female. The first I have great chemistry with he gives me plenty of exercise just for a day. The second, the lone female, is about 2, and is very shy and adorable; I’m still trying to figure her out and the youngest isn’t even a year old; so its hard to bond with him. Besides that I’m in a jobs training program that’s making progress. Everything else is just little everyday things that aren’t that important.

   Politics, its still there, it will never go away, it has been even more adventrous. Its never dull, we had the election last year of an African American president Barack Obama. Someone who ran on change. Trust me the political mood is still hyperpartisan , with our elected officials becoming even more selfish and peity. I’ll get into this more in future entries, right now I just wanted to give you an update on how things are. I’ll be posting more, maybe a little less than I did years before, but I’ll continue to give you details on how things are going in my life, politics, and other stuff(like entertainment. See ya soon!

 Who’s had a good 2007? Anyway I just want to say I hope everyone I know had a great year and 2008 will go just as good.  I know I sound like a Hallmark card(trust me I can’t stand them that much), but I’m just really saying a big thank you to all of you.  I’m probably saying them early because I’m going on vacation in a week and I’m going to spend the holidays(in New Mexico) and Christmas with family.  I hope you spend your Holidays in the best way you know how. Everyone’s different we’re all different individually, but in our heart I believe we all want the best.  Things for me feel like they have to take a certain direction soon with where I’m going in life. 2008 will be a year of something big in my life in where I’m headed, I hope anyway.  I’ll let things play out. But besides that we have an election next year(in about a year) and we’re finally going to have a new president.  I want a leader who will break the cycle of polarization, someone who will speak his mind and not care if it offends a certain sector of the country, someone who will bring new ideas, and someone who cares what the voter wants.  Whoever that is,  I always have said my top candidate is Joe Biden and if he fails, John Mccain. But if they don’t end up in the genereal election then I’ve got to reexamine the others and with all due respect to both they aren’t showing much traction in the polls so we’ll see. Who do you want as your leader(if you could choose just one)?? Besides that there’s certainly something that will suprise me or maybe not in 2008, but at the the end it only matters if I’m happy and everyone I know is.  So to everyone, I say best wishes to you and your loved ones on this holiday season and have a great 2008!!

  Ok, its been 12 days since the Boston Red Sox won there 2nd title in four years and yes it wasn’t even close. They swept them in four.  Actually it was almost expected. Some felt at most the Colorado Rockies could pull off at most two wins, but that’s it.  They didn’t, and it played out as I thought.  The superior team(best record in baseball) beat out a team that had to struggle to get into the playoffs.  Let me tell you it feels just as good as it did in 2004. Different, but the same.  Mike Lowell was the MVP for the series and in fairness he was the MVP for the season in terms of the lineup.  From baserunning to the clutch hitch, he delievered in the series. Plus having two young players like Jacoby Ellisbury and Dustin Pedroia set the table for the big guys Ortiz, Ramirez, and Lowell it was a delight.  Josh Beckett lights out, he’s definitely the CY Young winner this year in my opinion, no pitcher wanted it more like him.  Plus watching Schilling go deep down and pitch clutch performances leaves me in awe.  So does Jon Lester. He survived cancer and he clinched the finale by giving up no runs. Plus having Paplebon as your closer, you know he’ll give you his crazy dance, but he is dead serious as a closer and the results proved it.  Just ask the Rockies.  Anyway much more to get into, but the short of it, it felt great, with a capital G!  What added to it was A-Rod not being a Yankee any more he opted out of his contract and the Yankees decided not to renew it.  That feels so good words can’t describe.  But it was also insulting.  The announcement of all this came during Game 4 of the World Series, the nerve of him!  What he hasn’t been to a World Series so he has to steal the glory from us.  How dare he!  There’s talks of A-Rod coming to the Red Sox, forget it. He is totally classless.  It will be all moot when we resign Mike Lowell(a guy with class) and it won’t be a subject of debate.  Somehow it still is.  I know Lowell hasn’t resigned yet(they’ve offered him a 3 year deal), so you fear he’s leaving and think let’s get A-Rod.  Forget it. Also 2004, he wanted to challenge our captain Jason Varitek after he got hit and in return Varitek got the better of him.  Don’t mess with the captain!  Besides all this, of course I want Mike Lowell back that’s a must!  It was great to resign Curt Schilling so he can pitch his last year with us.  Schilling= WINNER!  We’ll the season is over and there isn’t much more to say but another championship and the future looks bright!  Much more to get into but I’ll end on this, no other baseball team is feeling better than us and to the rest of you including the New York Yankees, especially you, we’re on top of the world and your in disarray LOL!!

  Ok, as you can tell the Boston Red Sox are advancing and I don’t have to go through the process of why they got knocked out.  But there moving on to the World Series to face the Colorado Rockies and that’s a great thing, but it’s not a done deal yet!  I must tell you the Sox came up clutch especially with Beckett in the mound in Game 5(in Cleveland), to me it shows why he is the best pitcher going today, nothing phases him, this isn’t the pitcher of a year ago who would of gotten rattled, but one who is matured into putting fear into batters and pitching with greatness. After that Game 6 and 7 at home, blowout in the first with Schilling pitching a gutsy game, Drew came through with a grand slam and in Game 7 an eventual blowout but a tight 71/2 innings before the Sox blew it away with clutch performances from Pedroia who is performaining like a pro and Youklis whose a hitting machine. Do the Indians know what the word choke is, well its something they’ve become accustomed to and they can go through it again.  Now the World Series!

  Ok I must admit hearing Tim Wakefield is unavailable for the playoffs does make a little unsettled. You have one of your starters banged up and unavailable so that screws the pitching rotation around a bit.  Oh course Josh Beckett will take the ball in Game 1, then Schilling instead of extra rest will pitch on his normal rest in Game 2(4 days), then you have Dice-K in Game 3 in Colorado and Game 4 will probably see John Lester replacing Tim Wakefield in the start; they’ll probably add Julian Tavarez(a long inning guy/spot starter) to the roster to replace Tim Wakefield from the roster.  I guess it’s the playoffs and you take them as you can, you gotta struggle through what you have.  Hopefully if the bats throughout the lineup stay consistent and if you get a few strong starts from your starters I predict the Red Sox will beat the Rockies in six games. I hope I’m right, the Rockies have yet to lose in the playoffs yet, but they also haven’t faced competition this good.  Go Sox and bring another title home to Red Sox Nation!

    I’m trying to actually to see if it is viable for the Boston Red Sox to comeback from their 3-1 deficit aganist the Cleveland Indians.  Yes I know they did comeback from a 3-0 lead aganist the Yankees three years ago, but you can’t rely on the “backs are aganist the walls” motto to win all your playoff series, you have to have a reasonable to fair shot.  I’m not saying it can’t happen, but these are good teams your facing and it’s hard for a 96 win team like Cleveland to blow 3 straight games.  But if you do win tonight with your ace Beckett going, then who knows.  Both Games 6 and 7 are at home. But they have both there aces going in tonight’s game in Sabathia and Game 6(if it comes to that) Carmona aganist Schilling and it’s hard to have both Cleveland’s aces losing back to back games.  If anything is going to change someone besides Ortiz, Ramirez, and Lowell have got to give us some clutch hits.  Lugo and Crisp are worthless at the plate in the series, I know they can run, but please come through with some hits. I don’t know if Francona is going to put Ellisbury in centerfield to replace Crisp, but enough is enough, I know Terry Francona’s philosophy of sticking with players even when their in slumps (he did it with Johnny Damon in 2004 and he ended up with a big game aganist the New York Yankees in Game 7), but sorry to say that philosophy doesn’t always work.  Sometimes these players just can’t hit and you’ve got to force a change.  Hopefully Pedroia will come around, more or less he’s had some good swings but it hasn’t found the right spot.  Maybe if it gets to a Game 7 he will be the sleeper batter who comes through.  But first you have and I’m mean have to win tonight.  Let’s not assume we got Game 5 in the bag, they got their ace on as well(though he’s been slumping), so go in with a positive patient attitude and take it from there. Oh it does feel good by the way that Joe Torre stuck it to the Yankees by rejecting their one year deal, so there’s something to feel good about.  I don’t think anything more needs to be said they know what they have to do and you’ll either find out if they fell flat on their face or showed some Red Sox pride!!

 Classes start back tomorrow International Law(yiks!) and Latin American Politics, not being the best of students, I can hopefully see what I do.  My Boston Red Sox just humilated the Chicago White Sox by sweeping them in a complete drubbing in each game scoring a total of over 50 runs in the four game series. The bats are hot including Big Papi reganing his sweet home run swing with three homers in the series. This is all tuning up for the Yankees in a three game series in New York this Tuesday. With a big 7 1/2 games going into the series with almost thirty games left in the season, the Yankees are the team that are desperate and clinging to any chance of getting in the playoffs and oh ya I feel so sorry for them, (NOT A CHANCE IN HELL). What did you think I’d have any compassion, give me a break no true Red Sox fan has sympathy for New York none, and if you do your not a diehard fan.  Hopefully they’ll put the knock out punch out on them with Matsuzaka, Beckett, and Schilling pitching; we’ll gain more ground and they’ll lose more to us in the division and lose more ground in the wild card.  Also the Miami Hurricanes will start there season soon with most people picking them to win around seven games.  I’ll talk more about them in future.  Anyway everyone have a good semester and if your team is still in the playoff run enjoy the games.

  First off on this Memorial Day weekend lets all send our thanks to the troops out fighting in Iraq and Afghanstain and veterans worldwide, this is there time to be given thanks to, so thank you for putting your life on the line for our country. Anyway I’m sure all of you have heard about the Rosie O’Donnell/Elisabeth Hassleback on-air argument that took place this past Thursday on The View and heard about Rosie deciding to leave the show due to this, I don’t know what you think but I though Elisabeth got the best of it.  While the right is celebrating this, this isn’t a political debate, this has to do with a troubled woman who has been shouting out idiotic moronic statements about conspiracy theories of 9/11 and the war and a woman who has been mean to Elisabeth.  These are all human aspects no sane Democrat, Republican, or Independent believes what she says, anyone who does is troubled and they are in the minority.  I think Rosie is nuts and mean, but lets hope she gets help, she is clearly a troubled woman.  Oh, for Elisabeth this was a victory for her(not the Republicann party) but for her as a human being to stand up to someone and after being silenced through Rosie’s mean attitude she said enough is enough, no human being(Republican or Democrat), deserves to be treated like that. Let’s hope The View(which I don’t watch) gets back to sanity not insanity.

  Oh a couple things that I think and believe right now that I’d like to share.  1)First off, Rudy Guilani(I know Mr. 9/11) I think is so overrated and is someone I could never ever ever vote for and the media kisses his butt and think he is king god. Hey news alert Rudy before 9/11 was the laughing stock of politics and that was no accident that was by his own choices.  So quit getting admitted by him and ask him the tough questions and not coddling.  2) I wish the Republicans in their debates would quit mentioning Ronald Reagan, if I have to hear them cite it one more time I think I’ll puke. There’s only one Reagan, none of you, maybe Mccain(limited government and pork barrel spending) come close to being one.  So please shut up.  3)I wish Democrats would quit giving in to liberal interest groups that pressure them to take more extreme positions, show some backbone and vote your concious, not the interest groups, that truly makes you a sellout.  Finally, 4)Make these debates more open, here’s a concept let nominees ask other nominees questions and have a back and forth and others can do the same with a bell to signal the end of the debate.  It is so contrived now and it’s more of a “gotta game” to see what candidate stumbles.  Anyway just some political thoughts tell me what you think and gave me so input.

   Nothing much going on, though I feel like my bad luck is gone.  For the past three weeks or so I had felt like I couldn’t catch a break, of course I should mention that I got over this about a week ago.  Anyway first it was the sprained ankled that kept me hobbled and annoyed then when I got over that I have an instance where I’m overmedicated.  This of course is not the first time, but my medication was very high and I felt woozy and feeling like I had to stay in bed all the time. Of course I went in to see the doctor and my medication was lowered and I’m feeling like I normally do so that’s a relief.  All my ailments seem to be gone and I’m back to me. Anyway with much worse stuff like the Virginia Tech shootings happening, me saying this doesn’t really mean that much. Because I’m way better off than the poor families of the victims of the deadly shooting. I should note also that people who pushed gun-control and pro-gun causes during this time are pathetic, they show no remorse for the bereaved. Maybe you were or are well meaning in change but families victims of the tragedy probably see you as pushing an agenda. And if they were trying to push an agenda your sad people.  Anyway the tragedy will always play in our hearts, but I hope also that we learn something from it, anything.

  Ok right now I’m suffering from a right ankle sprain.  I suffered it this past Monday morning during a fire drill in the library(I still don’t understand why they did it!).  Anyway I’m upstairs on the second floor going down the stairs(so is everyone else), and that ended up to be the problem.  So I get down the first step of the staircase, I’m fine but as I approach the second stair case(on the 1st floor), kabam.  I took a tumble all the way down to the first step of the staircase, I was holding on to the stairs and all, but with the amount of people going down and I’m always careful going down stairs, people are rushing down and it forced me to go faster than expected and I suffered the mishap.  Everyone was nice and all helping me(even though I felt so embarassed), but as a result of that my sprained right ankle.   Fast forward to today, I’m making slow, ever so slow progress each day and I’ve been to physical therapy twice this week so far(I’m supposed to go back this Friday) and I’m on the path I would like.  You don’t know how I felt of it not being worst case scenario, that being a fracture, but thank god it wasn’t  But I’ll go through this nagging right ankle sprain with hopeful less pain and hopeful I can put some weight on it soon. The physical therapist said it would be 2-6 weeks, but the progress I’m making will hopeful make me go through this as minimal as possibile.  I guess my philosophy is you make best with what you have at the moment and that’s what I’m doing.  By the way March Madness is tomorrow.  College basketball has the best way to settle the national championship, it may not be the best sport, but all the games and all the brackets I’m one who always hopes for alot of upsets for it to be fun.  Because without  any upsets the tournament is blah, but I’m looking forward to it just like I do every year.

    Yes hair today, gone tomorrow. Actually it’s a little more complicated than that. Britney Jean Spears whose been at the center of the media’s glare since the ripe old age of 17, is now a shadow of her former self.  I actually feel very sorry for her, I know I’m a hypriocrate. I’ve been knocking her overly sexual antics since she was 17, who could forget her dressing up like a “school girl” at that age in Rolling Stone, to this day I thought she was a slut for doing it.  Plus her sexual acts to kissing Madonna and so forth, so I should just shut up tell her she got what she got coming to her and that’s it.  Well I can’t, a part of me feels sorry for her, she didn’t do this to be cool or hip, she did it because the pressure(especially the media attention) got to her. She’s been out of control for the past six months or so. I feel she’s heading down an Anna Nicole Smith road. As much as resent her and what she does, she doesn’t deserve it.  This isn’t cool, it’s somebody who has had with her the pressures of this business. If she doesn’t get help for herself, at least for the children, it’s no fun having a mom who parties and does wild antics like spreading your legs. For her sake I hope her friends and family get her some help, if not well the road she ends up with may not be the one she wanted when she started.

  This nonbinding resolution on Iraq being debated this weekend is really a waste of our time. I mean what’s the point of it, it just says that the Congress disapproves of Bush’s troop funding, so what. I’m aganist it to, but why should any of them waste their time going through this it’s a pure shriade it’s meaningless, it basically reaffirms the status quo. I respect the senators and congressmen who didn’t show up for the vote than the people who participated in it, it’s a waste of the public’s time. Now Republicans who say this is aid and comfort to the enemy better watch their language. To me that is plain scare tactics that has divided Republicans and Democrats for years. We don’t need it, you can say to Democrats your wasting the public’s time, but giving comfort to the enemy, watch it. Even if I think it’s basically silly, it’s still something they believe in. Bush basically doesn’t need to respond to what’s going on he can say screw you basically, he shouldn’t care what lawmakers say in this case. But he should realize that this is the last stand, people like me have almost had it, if the Iraqis can’t defend themselves, if we are doing the fighting, if Malikis government can’t stop the militias or Sadr, by at least the fall, then adios amigos. Our soldiers have fought bravely for too long and we have to see progress and if we don’t see improvements in those areas we will definitely have to redeploy our troops and end this war, we’ve already been there for about four years. Something has got to give!!