I found this the other day, and it is cool to pop in from time to time and take a look.

Deer Cam

Today was mostly squirrels and birds. But some of the guys from my hunting and fishing site have spotted some large bucks.

I put it up in the corner of my screen and just keep an eye out for something walking through.

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Yeah you are reading that correctly.  Lenny Dykstra AKA Nails is an accomplished stock guru.

Don’t believe me?  Google his name and see what pops up.  Go ahead….I can wait….Ok do you believe me now?

Dykstra lives in Wayne Gretzky’s old mansion, has his own private jet, living the life.

Here is some of the back story of Nails.

He as drafted by the NY Mets in the 13th round.  He went on the win the World Series in 1986 against them Red Sox.  Dykstra was traded to the Phillies on June 18, 1989, along with pitcher Roger McDowell and minor-league player Tom Edens for outfielder Juan Samuel.  He played his last season in 1996 and officially hung them up in 1998 after trying to make a comeback at the age of 35.

Today, Dykstra is a columnist for TheStreet.com, manages his own stock portfolio, and serves as president of several of his privately held companies, including car washes; a partnership with Castrol in “Team Dykstra” Quick Lube Centers; a ConocoPhillips fueling facility; a real estate development company; and a new venture to develop several “I Sold It on eBay” stores throughout high-demographic areas of Southern California. Dykstra has helped bring to the forefront an investment strategy called “Deep in the Money Calls”. He has also appeared on Fox News Channel’s The Cost of Freedom business shows. With money received in these ventures he was able to purchase Wayne Gretzky’s $17 million estate.

In 2002, Dykstra made a much-anticipated return to New York when he was elected as part of the Mets’ 40th Anniversary All-Amazin Team. In 2006, Dykstra also returned to Shea Stadium as the Mets honored the 20th Anniversary of the 1986 World Championship team. Dykstra received among the evening’s loudest ovations, and it is clear that to this day, he remains one of the city’s biggest fan favorites. Dykstra has recently voiced a greater desire to get back involved in baseball, and his name has been mentioned as a possible coach or manager for the Mets; and Dykstra has also recently served as a part-time instructor at Mets’ spring training at their camp in Port St. Lucie.

Will Lenny be back with the Mets after they fired Willie Randolph?

As a side note Lenny’s son Cutter Dykstra was drafted this year in the 2nd round by the Brewers.  He is a shortstop/second baseman.  Cutter, should have been a pitcher.

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The Red Sox are in town to play my hometown team the Philadelphia Phillies.

I was at the game last night and what a bunch of crap this Red Sox Nation is.  We get a bunch of lobster eaters down here to tell us how hard it is to be a Boston fan.  WTF?  How hard it is to be a Celtics fan, or Pats fan.  WTF?  Do they not know they are coming to Philly, are they so concerned with who they are not to know who we are?

I had 5 Sox fans in front of us at the game and they could not give us Colon’s starting record, hello you should know your pitchers record.  At least give us a ballpark idea, 5-2, 4-1, 3-4, have something to tell me.

Next is the Phillies are winning 4-0 and the Red Sox hit a HR.  Well every Sox fan is up yelling like they won the world series.  They are still losing by 3, just proof that they don’t have a clue.  It’s like being down 21 points in a football game and sacking the quaterback and jumping up like you just won the Super Bowl.  Know when to celebrate.

Here is the biggest scam to get into Red Sox Nation, you have to buy a membership.  Yes that is right go to RedSox.com and put down your $13.95.  You get a decal and get to watch the gameday tracker doing the game live.  Gameday tracker is free to every other teams fans.  But you also get to go in the special Nation’s entrance at Fenway.  Yeah you get access to your own secret entrance, along with the 500k other fans who paid the money.  It is probably easier to get in the other entrances.

Finally, Boston is a fraud city anyway.  I was up there the week before the AFC championship game watching Chargers fans walk around and bash the Pats.  This would not fly in Philly, no way can you wear your teams jersey in our town the week of a championship game.  No one heckled them, screamed at them, booed them out of a bar, nothing.

The night we were up there the Sixers played the Celtics and we sat in a bar a few miles away from the game and cheered for our Sixers all night.  No one said anything, not ribbing from the bartender, nothing.

Boston is a fraud.

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So watching the US Open like 50% of America tonight, and I noticed something, Golfers are Divas!

Tiger on the 17th hole steps back from his shot because he heard a camera shutter go off. I mean come on I know you need to keep quiet and still, but a camera?

In baseball guys are hitting and pitching with 3x the amount of fans watching. People are always screaming at the hitter or pitcher and it is just part of the game.

Football players actually have to talk to each other to communicate, and they have 70k+ cheering them on.

Why do golfers get this benefit? Does someone burping really throw their game off that much? Does a fart cause them a championship? I find it amazing that some drunk does not yell at Tiger when he is in his back swing.

I mean for tomorrows playoff round could you actually bet on the underdog and holler at Tiger during key shots? Is so why has no one tried it?

Think about it…… Tiger is on 18 going for a tie with a 10 foot putt. When he starts his swing someone yells, what would happen? He would not get to play it over, if he is “Mr. Ice” why would it affect him?

I love Tiger and can’t wait for tomorrow at 12et to see what happens.

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No longer will “The King of Beers” live in America, he is being purchased by a Belgium company called InBev. Today InBev offered $46,000,000,000.00 for Anheuser Busch. InBev owns Becks, Bass, and Stella.

The Busch family will still have ownership in the company, roughly 4 percent. This takeover was not supported by the Busch family. InBev has bolstered their bottom line by cutting cost. Does this mean some of the 12 Budweiser plants around the US will close? Will this close any of their theme parks? What will happen to the Clydesdale’s?

InBev was the 2nd largest brewery in the world, following Heineken at number one. Coors merged with Moslon a few years ago to form Molson Coors Brewing company, so I don’t know if that makes them an American company or Canadian Company. Remember if you will that Miller is owned by a South African company. So the days of the American brewery are over.

This is breaking news and I am sure details will follow.

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I have known about this for a while, and have started to try other Irish Stout’s to get away from Guinness. Do you love Guinness? Well most of the stuff you get in from Canada, not Ireland. I got this article from the AP so I can’t take credit for it. But I thought you would like it.

A dispute between several local Irish pubs and the Guinness Bass Import Co. continues more than a year after the bar-owners halted sales of Guinness-brand beer.

So, while the silky, dark brew flowed abundantly at an Ireland Chamber of Commerce luncheon for Guinness’ president of North American operations Thursday, taps in several of the city’s most popular pubs carried Murphy’s and Beamish Stout.

“It offends me,” said Chris Mullins, the owner of McGillin’s Olde Ale House. “I don’t like dealing with people who are doing something contrary business.”

At issue is a Guinness marketing policy of helping investors start new Irish pubs by teaching them the ins and outs of running a pub, from selecting a site to planning a menu. Bar owners say the practice allows Guinness to subsidize new pubs that will put established pubs out of business. About a half dozen Philadelphia bars are taking part in the boycott, which does not appear to have spread outside the area.

“It’s not about competition,” Mullins said. “Every year, new Irish pubs open, (but) they’re not supported by one of the largest corporations in the world. They’ve got to buy from the same suppliers I do.”

Tim Kelly, Guinness’ president of North American operations, was in Philadelphia on Thursday for a luncheon with the local chapter of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce in the United States, He said the pub development is simply a way to sell more beer for the company, which is a subsidiary of the London-based Diageo PLC food conglomerate.

“Our job is to sell Guinness,” Kelly said. “It’s about consumer demand.”

We don’t open or manage pubs. What we do is give training and advice to anybody who wants it, whether it’s a new pub or an existing pub,” Kelly said.

Philadelphia pub owners who have stopped selling Guinness, however, say they don’t get the same benefits as those just starting out.

“We feel that we helped them become the successful brand that they’ve become,” said Mark O’Connor, an owner of the Irish Pub who has coordinated the protest. “We’d like them to market their beer as they always did, through the independent pub system.”

O’Connor also worries that other brewers might start competing with his establishment and create what Mullins called “cookie-cutter, Disneyesque Irish pubs.” “Our argument is, what if Anheuser-Busch does the same thing? What if they use the same percentage of their resources to start new business?” he said.

More than a year after abandoning Guinness, the boycotting pub owners say business hasn’t suffered. “I was very nervous when we took Guinness off,” O’Connor said. “But as long as you have a good alternative, people are coming for the atmosphere, not for the Guinness.”

“We’re doing as well as we’ve ever done,” Mullins said.

If you get a chance stop by McGillians, it is a nice place. I have talked to Chris and it is a family run pub with Father and Son both working there.

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When you hear Budweiser/Coors/Miller do you think wow that is a good lager?  Yes Bud is a lager, and it is the Pussification of Beer.  American Lager is beer for people who don’t like beer.  Do they make a wine for people who don’t drink wine?  Yes Boone’s Farm, has anyone ever looked cool drinking Boone’s?  So why should people drinking American Lagers look cool?

You hear lager and your thinking, Fosters, Yuengling, Lucky.  All great lagers that are true lagers. Well American Lager’s are taking over and we need to put a halt to it.  They are often called “lawnmower beer” because they quench your thirst, just like water.

Do you know how American Lagers became so popular?  Women, yeah women.  During WWII most men were off fighting for our country and beer companies had to sell to someone, so they turned to women.  Women like a beer, that had little taste, no spices, no hoppy flavors, not heavy or filling.  They made water with a little bit of alcohol,  American Lagers are 4% - 6% in alcohol.

In fact most American Lagers do not contain any hops. HOPS it is what gives beer its flavor.  It gives beer that sharp bitter flavor so many of you like.

Lager gets its name from the process of making that type of beer.  Lagering is where you place beer in a cool place to ferment and develop its flavor.  Normal lagering times are 3 - 4 weeks at 45°F, 5 - 6 weeks at 40°F, or 7 - 8 weeks at 35°F. Have you heard the Bud commercials?  They lager their beer for  3 whole weeks, have any of you every been on a Bud tour?  If you were was the tour at or below 45 degrees?  No, I took the tour in January in NH and the tanks were no colder then 60 degrees at best.  Does this fit the description of lagering?

Ok, we all like to pound a Coors light once and a while and that is fine.  But do yourself a favor, put down the Bud and get a beer.  Would you order Boone’s at a French restaurant?  So don’t order Bud unless you are at a NASCAR event.

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Ok, I got a question for you.  Why do gas prices go up when the gas in the tanks has already been paid for?  I mean say Texaco pays $2 per gallon for there tanks.  And say the tank is 1000 gallons, I know it is more but just to make the math easy lets go with this.  So 1000 gallons at $2 = $2000.  And yesterday we paid $3 a gallon and today it is $3.05, why?

I can see changing the prices when they fill up the tanks.  Does not make any sense to me.  Do you go to the grocery store and pay $1 a pound for oranges, and $1.50 the next day for the same oranges?  I think they should not be able to change the prices on gas that is already in the ground.  Just my 2 cents.

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It is a disgrace that MLB allows players to sit out with made up stupid injuries so they can hit a milestone HR at their home park.

Griffey is sitting at 599 and has been out the last 3 games with general soreness. BS. Is it right to keep a player on the bench so he can hit a big time HR at home? NO! The Reds want to make a profit off of it, sell tee shirts, posters, hats, tickets. Why does MLB allow this. Phillies fans have been going out every night to see history and he is not playing.

Manny Ramirez hit his 500 last week in Baltimore, Micheal Jack Schmidt hit is 500 in Pittsburgh, these guys didn’t care where the ball landed.

Say Griffey ends up with 699 HRs these 3 games he sat out could have been important could have put him in the 700 club. Plus why would the Reds not play one of their best players. So far the Reds have lost both games he has not played in, we will see how the series finishes up. If they go 0-4 and miss the division on wild card by one game you can look back at this series.

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I can’t take credit for this one, I saw it on Good Eats.

Ok, get yourself some romaine lettuce hearts and cut them down the middle lengthwise, leave the bottoms on so everything stays together. Coat with extra virgin olive oil. Sprinkle on some salt, pepper, or whatever you like. I like a little garlic and chili powder. Next get a cup of Parmesan cheese and pack it on to the cut side of the lettuce. With a hot grill put the cheese side down, give it 2-3 minutes or until he cheese is melty and golden brown. Pull off the grill and let it cool down.

You can put on whatever dressing you like, I like A1. You can sprinkle whatever other veggies you like and enjoy. Remember it is meant to be eaten like a hot dog, no forks here.

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