The NASCAR CUP CHASE pre-chase CALL by PAUL Gozzo

Ya like that title?

OK, here tis the call. Jeff Gordon will win his 5th NASCAR Cup title . The headlines will be that JGR's engines kill Kyle Bush's championship hopes...and Kurt Bush and Jimmy Johnson wreck each other's chances.

1. Jeff Gordon

2. Kyle Bush

3. Carl Edwards

4. Jimmy Johnson

5. Kevin Harvick

6. Ryan Newman

7. Matt Kenseth

8. Brad Keselowski

9. Denny Hamlin

10. Kurt Bush

11. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

12. Tony Stewart

by: Paul Gozzo

Three new Hockey Movies: The Last Gladiators, Goon, and Breakaway

I'm looking forward to seeing these three new hockey movies, "The Last Galdiators", "Goon", and "Breakaway". All have either Academy Award winning directors or decent star power, most notably: Alex Gibney, Seann William Scott, Rob Lowe, Liv Schreiber (who did the voice over for HBO's 24/7 last year), Ludacris (ya that one), Sabres Goalie and US Olympian Ryan Miller, and a bunch of others you might recognize.

I'm guessing the Gibney documentary about Chris Nilan from his Montreal Canadians days will be the best of the bunch.

Here is an article about the three hockey movies stealing the show at the recent Toronto Film Festival.

by: Paul Gozzo

Winnipeg Jets new jerseys

I can't help it....I am routing for the Winnipeg Jets this year. I am also routing for every city, like Hartford, who lost a team to southern expansion, that they get their teams back! Going to Whaler games was a big part of my childhood and I am hopeful for many other kids who are growing up playing this great sport of hockey without a local professional team to rout for.

Paul Gozzo

Apple to have Retina Display, soon iTV!

With a buzz forming around Apple's next move and many believing that the next version of the iPad (3) will have retina display...I am more interested in Apple TV which has =actually been in market since 2006.

Along with renting movies and TV shows....Apple TV will probably allow users to watch Youtube on their TV's and watch movies from Netflix as well...

Because Apple TV has been around for 5 years you may think this part of the business is not doing well, but you have top imagine forward ala Steve Jobs and so imagine a world where Apple makes the television screen perfect while integrating all of the content from Apple TV. It is a tough vision to have, so maybe just start with thinking about what the iPod did in combination with iTunes and how that affected the music industry.

by: Paul Gozzo

The Autumn Rut

The Autumn is my favorite time of year. The weather change, the beauty of nature, baseball playoffs, football Sundays and Monday nights, cold weather meals, burning leave piles, hockey is just around the corner....and The Rut!

For those of you who don't know what The Rut is let's start with Wikipedia's definition since everything posted on the Internet is true: "The Rut for white-tailed deer usually lasts from 1-3 months in the Northern Hemisphere and may occur most of the year in tropical zones. The rut is the time when white-tailed deer, especially bucks, are more active and less cautious than usual."

And that last part, my friends, is what it is all about. Catching that big boy out looking for a lady, when he is thinking with the wrong head! Sometimes a hunter will scout an area for many hours only to be surprised at what he sees when the season finally opens up and the rut is in full effect.

Words cannot fully express the excitement and I cannot accurately describe the feeling. Perhaps the best way to describe the general notion of hunting the rut is to go back to the beginning of this blog and to take some of the different feelings from each one of those early fall activities and add them all up and that result is the closest I can come up with to describe the rut.

Happy fall all!

Paul Gozzo

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American Eagle watching over her heros by: Paul Gozzo

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Unemployment, Spending, and Presedential Reelection by: Paul Gozzo

It's 2011 and we have a new presidential election next year. Our President took office just before a severe recession hit the US Economy followed by unprecedented government bailouts that basically the United States needed in order to prevent a terrible catastrophic disaster. Since then, the markets have stabilized and many rich folks have made a lot of money. Even this past year, unemployment improved. now, unemployment is deproving which isn't a word but i am using it anyway. (Rumors floating today that Cisco http://www.cisco.com/ is laying of 10,000 employees)

right now, we have 1.5 years until our current President is reelected or we have a new President. Guess what will get accomplished between now and then?

Nothing.

The two biggest problems we face as a country are a lack of job creation and a gigantic debt load.

Congress is really in charge of stimulating job growth. And we have a different Congress than we did when President Obama took office. However, many people do not know that this is the role of Congress, so Republicans don't want to see job growth for another year so they can blame it on out current President as he runs for elections next year.

So when I say "nothing" will be done in the next year this is the part I am talking about. The job situation will not get any better, it will in fact get worse and this trend has already started based off of recent employment data released last week.

So, how then can our President make his move to counter The Republicans? He can begin to take action and reduce our country's ridiculous debt and point to this fact over and over for the next year. But he can't and he won't. Again, nothing will be done.

If you don't believe that notion, ask yourself how can our President cut spending ahead of his election? Won't he be cutting off ties with the very people who contribute to his campaign? After all, isn't that how it works; special interest groups get benefits after they help an official get elected and if they get stiffed, they drop support (or worse)?

Add to the mix the fact that no one running for office, any office, says they will raise taxes; in act, they all claim they will cut taxes and even now, the new trend is to say they will cut spending too. But as I have mentioned earlier, you cannot cut spending if the very people who contribute to your campaign want you to spend on their projects!

And guess what, I'm not angered either way. I cannot even vote. Ha! But, I do love this country and I want some friggin change! I want leaders, not politics. I want a new breed of politician. I want new business leaders who care about the community. And, I am rooting for whoever gets elected to make it happen. It is clear to me and should be to you all now, both Republicans and Democrats, that the past decade and probably longer, has been disgusting. We seem to be a Nation of big fat want it now Americans who are unwilling to make real change happen. Instead we do what fat people love to do, talk about it, but never actually do anything.

Anyone got a 4 minute diet for me?

Nah, too much time, I will just take a pill.

Comments are welcome.

Let the hate begin.

by: Paul http://twitter.com/#!/paulgozzo Gozzo