I hope Tebowing (the act of kneeling and praying, giving thanks, etc) catches on with the American public. It is certainly needed. Did you see where Denver beat Kansas City and Tebow only completed two passes, one for a 56 yard touchdown. He did run for 68 yards or so. There maybe something to this Tebowing thing. Course, I have always thought so, and now maybe the rest of the country will. So far Denver is looking pretty good. Hey, how about this…We start Tebowing for the President of the United States. I think he could use our prayers. I  heard a person a while back say, “Shoot, I’m not going to pray for the President, I want him out of there.” I personally don’t think that is the proper thing to say or the way to feel, as everyone needs our prayers and especially in that office. We are in some difficult times in America and we cannot succeed without the help of the Almighty, so lets Tebow for America and our President and Congress……OK?

New Mexico beat UNLV 21 – 14 and just missed another td, short by inches and missed two field goals. A good game for a change….And down the road at Las Cruces, NMSU met Fresno State and beat them 48 – 45 in a wild one….I don’t think hell froze over, but it could have….I am so excited…Bama won also, more excitement, however, Miss St played tough, huh? They always do with Bama…..Nebraska did beat Penn St but barely. A sad Saturday in Harrisburg. Silence is not always golden and it is coming back to haunt several folks at Penn St, well, all over the country for that matter. A real shocker for sure…..My upset special with Wyoming beating Air Force came to be, Wyoming pulled it out….La Tech did in Ole Miss..Let me take this opportunity to tell Houston Nutt goodby and sorry it did not work out for him there in Oxford…Okla St beats the crap out of Texas Tech. I guess the Red Raiders left everything in Norman, nothing left….Colorado woke up and beat Arizona, so I missed that one…..Kansas St did beat Texas A & M, but Texas did not beat Missouri….Arkansas, Georgia, and Wisconsin all won, but I missed on Iowa beating Mich St . So, my picks were not all that great this week, but I am so happy both the Lobos and Aggies won…The Lobos showed some offense for a change. First play of the game, qb Holbrook hit Long for a 80 yard touchdown pass, hooking me for the rest of the game, which ended about 11 pm our time. It was worth it though. My remote got a work out again last night, Bama and the Aggies and the Lobos, all playing night games and each starting about an hour apart. It was fun….Thanks, guys…

The Penn St. story is going to be in the news for a while….the long term effect on the school, on the football program, getting good recruits, getting a good coach….I heard some things this morning that I was not aware off…The football program brings in around 70 million a year. Joe Paterno was paid around a million a year. The football coach was ranked around 60th in the nation in pay for the football coach. New Mexico gets what, 7 to 10 million per year (and that may be high) but paid our football coach 750,000 per year. I don’t know what Alabama football brings in per year, but their coach is one of the highest paid coaches in the country. So Penn St has a ways to go to bring in a top coach but maybe they understand where they are in this matter already. But, I think they can afford to go lots higher on the football coach’s pay, don’t you?….Football picks for this coming weekend….Penn St vs Nebraska….Neb is favored by 3.5 points, but I really look for it to be worse as I think the team is in a state of shock and are not ready to play football…Neb by 14 points….Okla St beats Texas Tech….Air Force vs Wyoming….I am going for the upset again…Wyoming beats them by 3 points…Bama is pissed and Miss ST gets clobbered……Arizona beats Colorado…Arkansas over Tenn…..Georgia over Auburn…Louisiana Tech over Mississippi (I guess Nutt could apply at New Mexico), another upset special, Iowa over Mich St……Wisconsin Badgers beats up the Minnesota Gophers…..Well, some weeks I just get carried away as Kansas St beats Texas A & M…Texas beats Missouri…New Mexico wants to beat UNLV, but can’t, not this year anyway and New Mexico State loses to Fresno St (I read this morning that Fresno St has suspended three top players, so now I am thinking that NMSU may win this one). I hope that next year I can pick both the New Mexico school to win most weeks, that would be so refreshing…….Hey, New Mexico Lobo basketball team is playing New Orleans tonight….I believe the bb team is going to make New Mexico proud this year…I think they are a top twenty five team…I really do…They have a very strong bench so injuries and unavailable players won’t kill them this year, ie, like losing our point guard last year…..I’m ready for some basketball…..11/12 update…New Mexico really took it to New Orleans last night, like 92 – 49 and it could have been worse….Everyone played….Go Lobos

And we all thought that Penn St ran a squeaky clean program. That is not a pun because of the shower scene details  either. You would have thought that some higher authorities would have been called in such a bad situation, wouldn’t you? I have always liked Joe Paterno, believed in him and I think he thought that keeping quiet was the best thing to do for the University. No sir, it was not and in delaying it for so long he has really tarnished the school, if it is true. He said he told his boss and evidently they felt like Joe, to just be quiet and it would all go away….Don’t we all wish bad things were that simple…You gotta wash when you get dirty, otherwise you start piling dirt on top of dirt…..This will have a sad ending, for the school and for Joe, but the young men involved can now try to make a new start…Wow, too bad, huh? This should have been settled years ago…

I love pine trees. We have two in our yard and one just across the fence in our neighbors yard, which acts like it is mine by dumping all its needles in our yard. So, from the two on both sides of our house in the front and one in the back, we get amazing pine needle and cone productions. I raked yesterday after our first fall wind, seemed like winter’s wind, but it had gusts of maybe 70 mph or somewhere so close to that. Anyway, tons of pine needles came raining down on my yard and our street. Since Dallas was playing the early game, I had to get out early, in the cold but clear weather and rake. And rake.  And rake. I even did the street. I had my little Mazda pick-up stacked as high as I could get the pine needles stacked. I did cover my load to haul it the dump location. A few years ago, no. 1 son gave me a gadget that attaches to my tail gate. It is fabric on a roller  with a crank handle. This sheet of some durable material is rolled off to cover the bed of the pickup and I load the needles, leaves, pulled up plants, etc and pile them in the back of the truck on top of that fabric. Then when I get to the dump, I back into the dump area, lower my tail gate and crank the load off, in seconds…..Usually, I draw a crowd to witness what just happened. If you have ever unloaded a load of grass, weeds, pine needles, you know what I’m talking about. Normally, it takes you a while to get a pickup unloaded. This little gadget is a real time and work saver as long as your load is not real heavy. On heavy loads the fabric slips and will not pull the load out. I learned that the hard way. But for grass and weeds, pine needles and such, it is great. Let me rephrase the opening sentence…Most of the time I love pine trees….

I am beginning to think that I should leave the picking of college football games to the experts. I am not doing very well…However,  Bama should have won. I hope coach will have a try out for kickers from his student body…I’ll bet you there are some good kickers amongst the thousands of students on that campus. Come on, coach, find you a kicker….But, LSU played a good game and they really have a good defense..Utah laid it on Arizona….Wyoming hung with TCU very well but I missed my upset pick here and the same for my upset of Wake Forest over Notre Dame…Wisconsin won big and both my New Mexico teams got beat up on, again, but you can hear the cash resister down at State going ka-ching, ka-ching, as the 900,000 bucks are being deposited from the University of Georgia…Thanks Bulldogs….I don’t think San Diego State paid the Lobos anything like that…Matter of fact we may still be paying Rocky Long on our buy out from a several years ago…Oh, well, I am sure life is good on the west coast, huh, Rocky?….I’ll probably pick again next week, but I’ll go easy on the upset specials…..

If a person wants to improve their typing, try a poker chat room. You are rotating the old slot wheel hoping for a jack pot and all this gossip is going on and you can’t help but get caught up in it, soooooo, you end up typing fast and getting on the wrong home keys and losing you train of thought and about the time you catch up on the present conversation,  it moves off in another direction so you have to shift gears and try to get caught up with the latest…then a new person comes on board and you have to say you how you dos, then another leaves and you have to say you goodnite……chatting in the slot rooms is tough, let me tell you….But you know what, there are some nice folks on there…and some quick witted folks as well….I think the multi-tasking, ie, the wheel, the conversations, the changing folks, must lend to the upgrading of the educational level of all involved. And they remember you tomorrow…Neat huh?…Well, I thought so….I have even hit a couple of jack pots, while still fun,  that seems to be less important these last few days….

San Juan Shale May be poised for Next Boom, by Kurt Madar, The Daily Times, Farmington, NM….According to this article, Steve Dunn of Merrion Oil and Gas, that his company is in the middle of negotiations to start drilling for oil in San Juan Basin Shale, which could fuel the next extraction boom in the state of New Mexico.  He expects some results by next summer. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have changed the type of rock that oil and gas companies can profitably drill. Because of these changes, huge amounts of oil once thought unreachable in San Juan Basin’s Mancos Shale deposits now are within reach.. With the new technologies, companies can start tapping shale formations for both natural gas and oil.. Steve Dunn estimates that the basin has about 30 billion barrels of oil in the Mancos formation, of that he figures 1.5 billion is recoverable. He said that in the last 30 years the basin has produced some 300 million barrels…..That is quite the oil reserve if you ask me and of course, it is very good news for the Farmington area and for New Mexico…..We will keep you posted on this drilling news as it develops….Did you know there is no railroad serving the Farmington and Bloomfield areas, a major oil and gas production area….No rail service…Amazing….You would think one of the railroads would try to capitalize on that, wouldn’t you? Gov. Bill Richardson built the Railrunner with passenger service only from Belen to Santa Fe, on exiting tracks for the most part, it is not a paying deal and probably never will be, but he did it.   You would think that rail service, say Gallup to Farmington, NM, a distance of 133 miles would be a lot more lucrative than that of  ninety mile passenger service and certainly a lot more useful to the state and especially to that area. It could well serve as a rail hub for Southwestern Colorado and Southeastern Utah…..Geez, I wish I had a bunch of money, I’d build me a railroad,….. New Mexico, Colorado and Utah…The old NMCU Express, serving the Four Corners Areas of America….Can I get any backers? ….Very doubtful, but where is the guts from the Burlington Northern? No rail service  with two major refineries and several major gas plants, served by pipeline and trucks only…..How did that happen you reckon?….Pete Hester

Of course, I don’t know Herman Cain and have no idea as to his reputation. Nor do I know his accusers in the sexual harassment charges. The fact that they were paid something, for silence or whatever, and the fact that the women accepted the payments for silence tells me a couple of things. One, Mr. Cain was willing to make some kind of appeasement payment to settle the whole thing and two, the women were not damaged enough to not accept the dollars offered for the silence. What is happening now is that Mr. Cain is gaining the national spotlight and is making the women think they have more to gain and by “speaking out”. They hope they can capture a national audience thereby really capitalizing with TV exposure and possible big bucks by breaking their payoff promise. I do not condone any sexual harassment, but for them to restart the “I’ve been wronged” after being paid to set “things right” in my opinion amounts to blackmail. Does it seem that way to you or am I missing something? ……11/7….AS more ladies come forward one has to wonder about Mr. Cain’s actions in the past…..

This is going to be a good football weekend…No. 2 Bama beats No. 1 LSU…Both teams better play four quarters and don’t leave “nothing” on the table. This one could be the Mother of all football games…..Lobo Football stuff….Ex Lobo coach Rocky Long is gonna kick the sh……, he gonna kick the stuffing’s out of the Lobos..I wish I had some words of wisdom for the Lobos but I am all out of words, ‘cept…Good Luck!!!!…Lobo Basketball stuff…Coach Alford is bringing in one of his ex-players, now coach of Davenport, an NAIA club who was 29 – 6 last year, for an exhibition game…As you know, we have big plans for our basketball Lobos this year, hoping to equal the record of the Lobo soccer team who is presently 15 – 0 – 2 on the season and is ranked no. 1 in most polls…By the way, our Lobo women soccer team is the Mountain West Conference champs this year..Pretty good, huh?..Our cross country was the conference champs also…Tebowing stuff….I’m proud of Tim Tebow, a very nice, Christian man, who after guiding his Denver Broncos to a win in Miami was shown on national TV bowing on one knee and praying…giving thanks for the Broncos win and followed it up the next week with the Detroit Lions beating the crap out of them. One of the Lions mocked Tebow after a sack and if he was really giving thanks for the sack, I apologize…However, if he was mocking Tebow about praying, that may come back to haunt him…it probably will…I am not a Bronco fan, but I am proud of Tebow and what he stands for…Way to go Tim, but Coach Fox said you have to improve as a pocket passer to keep your starting job as qb…Humm, Tim you might want to do some Tebowing there this week….Cowboying stuff…..Where in the world have the cowboys gone????…Coach Garrett says there is plenty of blame to go around and I say he sure got that right. What happened to the running game of a week ago?  They cannot put together a couple of good games in a row, can they? They have some excellent players on both sides of the ball, but all of them can get hot and cold…together…at the same time….Anyway you can alternate some of the hot and cold????Get it together fellows……Looking at college football games this weekend and trying to decide the winners, the one I am in a dilemma over is the Arkansas vs South Carolina game…Arkansas should win, but they need to start earlier in the game….Go Hogs….Arizona should win this week,they are picked over Utah and I am hoping they win big,( huh No. 1 Grand daughter?)….Wisconsin will win over Purdue, ….Upset special stuff……I need to pick a upset special this week, but I am going to pick two upsets…Notre Dame (favored by 14) is beaten by Wake Forest and TCU (favored by 19) is beaten by Wyoming….(Why would anyone make such a wild choice as those two upsets you reckon? Well, its just a feeling……we’ll see?)