Dr Dick's Report 12.17.11

   Hey now! Howard Stern is finally on network TV, as a judge on "America's Got Talent". I think it will be a big hit! 
     So I've been straddling two bands much to the chagrin of my family, as my schedule is the old "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag" routine and with the holidays upon us it only seems worse! But I am really enjoying it and can hear and feel the progress my singing has received. 2012 will be a year of music for me!
    I have made much progress with my picture taking also, as can be evidenced by the opening photo of New York City from Staten Island! For the longest time I was only concerned with the subject and what it means to me, now I am starting to employ more technical aspects and it is showing big time. 2012 will be a year of photography for me!
    I want to say something about saying "Merry Christmas" vs "Happy Holidays"! Have you nothing better to be angry about? First off, never in my life has anyone, anywhere scolded me for saying Merry Christmas, in fact the only place I see or here this is on Facebook, in which people stoke their own controversy by bringing it up, and on Fox News in which they want Obama to be as a characterized as a Christian hating Muslim! Nobody likes technology more than I do, but a lot of folks read something on Facebook or Twitter and seem to think that it must be true, and in fact I would go as far as to say more things posted nowadays are untrue than true, as no one seems to do any fact checking, they just assume that what they like as news is what is true......... But to finish my original thought, when you see me, say any type of holiday greeting you want, because if you tell me what I should say, that is Un-American and bigoted.....
    Phillies just signed Jimmy Rollins to a 3 year contract with an option for a fourth. I wasn't all that concerned about him leaving because his production has tailed a bit due to injuries. But he is 33 years old and Chase Utley turns 33 today and I wouldn't think of letting Utley go, so why would i let go of Jimmy, and as my son says, why wouldn't you try and keep him, we are not in a rebuilding mode.....I think the Phillies biggest problem, besides untimely lack of bats in the playoffs, was depth, and I think they have done something about that...... Only around 60 days till pitchers and catchers folks.................
   Quick thoughts I must pass on........... I can say with certainty I have never wiped from back to front......... I think sometimes i get a little down around the holidays as I live my life to the fullest all year round, so when the holidays come, i can't take it up a notch, cause I'm already running full throttle, of course knowing this makes it easier to deal with............. The Iraq War officially ended yesterday and with little or no fanfare! Remember when Bush declared victory on the aircraft carrier and then thousands of American soldiers proceeded to die after his victory proclamation? 
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What would you call 3.1416 vaginas?
Hair pi


What would you call a guy with no arms, no legs, and a twelve inch penis?
Partially handicapped..........har har har har




Ok until next time, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Merry Kwanza, Have a great Wednesday next week.......
                                                                ........."Dr Dick" Wilkins


Photos below: Busy times recently, Julia won Miss Laurel Highlands Pageant in Western PA, Richie filling in for me videotaping Easton Girls basketball, in New York at the Dakota where John Lennon lived and was murdered on December 8, 1980, Me and Julia when she got her third Varsity letter for tennis.....Life is full, life is good.........

Dr Dick's Report 12.5.11

     I was gonna talk about Andy Reid, but first I wanna talk about my daughter Julia! She went out to Somerset PA over the weekend and won the "Miss Laurel Highlands" Title for Miss America Outstanding Teen! She has been competing in pageants for a while now and I feel it has really helped her to be a strong, confident young woman........I really can't explain how proud I am of her....

 This is a picture of her with the "Miss" winners, they are the girls over 18............... She is now qualified to compete for the state title in May 2012..............

                                                                                           

     So Andy Reid, I'm with all of you, it's time for him to go, but! Let me give you youngsters a little history about Philly sports. The last time the Eagles won an NFL Championship (Super Bowl before it was called that) was 1960! I was three years old, I went to my first game at Franklin Field and saw the Giants against the Eagles and the Giants had the first ever soccer style kicker on their team, Pete Gogolak.......... Over the years the Eagles were pretty much one of those teams that allowed the good teams to get a lot of wins (Like Ole Miss and Rice in college ball), they had lousy coaches like Joe Kuharik and Rich Kotite and lousy owners like leonard Tose who gambled all his money away! Then for a couple of years with Quarterback Ron Jaworski and Coach Dick Vermeil they finally went to a Super Bowl in 1980 and lost to a team they handled (Raiders) during the regular season. Then they were bad again. Randall Cunningham and Buddy Ryan made things interesting, but really they were never a powerhouse team......... Then Andy Reid came aboard with new owner Jeffrey Laurie and the Eagles became a winning franchise! I know we all want a super bowl victory and it doesn't look like Andy will ever bring one, but let's not look at him as a bad coach, because he hasn't been. His record is 122-81 and 10-9 in playoffs, not to shabby, many people with lessor records are considered genius's! I believe Reid should be kicked upstairs, as a team they are always under the salary cap, always have a lot of draft picks, and are able to sign free agents, and Reid has been a big part of that. But his penchant for challenging calls that were correct, poor time management, and failure to use the run, when he has great runners, does not keep opposing defenses honest against his pass a lot theory...........I guess my point is, once he's gone I will remember him as a winning coach, who couldn't win the big one......................

       I saw this what looks to be a memorial for someone who was maybe killed on a bicycle and found it interesting.........

     I was in New York City for most of the day today, and i go there a lot as I have been a Limo driver for almost 20 months now and i must say no matter what time of day or time of year I still get a thrill when I see the skyline, we don't realize that we have the greatest city in the world right in our backyard, less than a hundred miles away...............

                                       Later.................... "Dr Dick Wilkins

Sorry this a little bumpy yet, I've just returned to writing, so give a brother a chance................................................................................

Dr Dick's Report 12.1.11

    Dr Dick's Report 12.1.11 = DDR

 I'm back and on a new blog link! Apple moved me from me.com to iCloud, but iCloud will not have blogging capability, so here I am......... "Dr Dick" back and talking at you.........
     Yesterday at my old job at Mountainview Prison at Annandale NJ, the worst thing happened, three officers were viscously assaulted and injured, which leads me to a few thoughts. Let start here, no one grows up wanting to be a prison guard, you want to be a fireman or a cop, or a train engineer, but not a corrections officer. So let's just say that when you take this job, it's for the money and the pension. Full pay and medical benefits for the rest of your life after 25 years of service in a job that has the worst negative undertones that you can't even imagine........ Which brings me to my main thought, I retired exactly on the first day I was eligible for retirement and all of you who work there should too! Everyday you go to work you do not think you can be assaulted or even killed, but your chances in a place like that are better than most peoples, it just doesn't seem like it cause you go there everyday and it seems like normal life to you, but its not! And the next thing that will happen is that they will investigate it and try and find how it could possibly be the officers fault, when in reality it is illegal for anyone to assault anyone anywhere, regardless if it is expected from these folks in prison...............
     Sorry it took something from my old job to fire up the old DDR (Dr Dick's Report) but I am back and hope to start writing a few times a week passing on my thoughts and causes and jokes. For all of you who are not Facebook friends of mine, I'll get you up to speed. I've been retired from Annandale since May 2010 and have been driving Limo for J&J Luxury Transportation in Allentown PA and that sends me all over the place on a daily basis, I still live in Palmer Twp near Easton PA and I am currently trying to sing in two different bands, that I think are coming around nicely! I'd like to talk about football, but my teams, Penn State and the Philadelphia Eagles have had some really rocky roads lately so not much to say there this day.......... but I will..........
     Baseball, my favorite sport is around 75 days away from spring training, so we'll be talking about that soon....... So for now I'm done and I'll figure out this Google Blogging system as I go.........
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"Dr Dick" Wilkins

New York City, 11.30.11