#5 My Job is Picking Up

This was the sign on the pooper scooper guy's trash can who followed the mounted police in parades when I was a kid. Now its all coming back to haunt me. My job for a week and 3 days has literally been to shovel poo. Three Great Danes, two of whom outweigh me and the other of which is monstly incontinent, make a lot of poo.
I'm housesitting, of course, I'd never fit three 130+ lb beings in my apartment unless some friends needed a place to crash after a night of drinking. They'd not fit into my apartment. These guys- Samson, Barkley, and Winston are lovely dogs, really sweet and I enjoy the big one s more than the small yappy ones, but this poo thing is a real deterrent to my fully enjoying their sweetness. Have you seen the size of Great Dane poo?? I could post a picture, but I won't.

I digress. Enough Dane poo. In other news today, we joined the rest of the civilzed world by outlawing the juvenile death penalty. First the mentally retarded, now the kids. Now THAT is progress. So proud to be an American!! And even prouder am I to be a Missourian, where after a long and unproductive 18+ month time away from killing our own, we're back to the executions this month. Thank goodness, I can breathe easy again soon. After all, surely the crime rate has skyrocketed and the streets have filled with violent criminals since the DP is such a huge crime deterrent.

Rehnquist was apparently disappointed in the ruling, he said something out of his tracheostomy about life being more valuable as a fetus this big --> . <-- than as a walking, talking, breathing 17-year-old. Of course this living, breathing 17-year-old has killed people and the fetus (.) has not...yet. Still, no one was asking the Court to let the child criminals free, no these kids will never see the light of day, and probably they should not. But at least the Court decided that death is best left up to nature, God, or one's self, not the state or federal government. This is the way it should be.
I just started to type some other horrible joke/smartass comment about the Pope answering Renquist out of his OWN trach... but that's just in bad taste.

Oh! How could I forget the MOST pressing news- Rick Ankiel threw 3 strikes yesterday in BP in Jupiter!! Of course, the threee strikes were just 3 of 26 pitckets he threw, but I was there in the 2000 playoffs, I saw the implosion. Believe me, the Rick Ankiel of the 2000 NLCS could NEVER have thrown 3 strikes. I think things are looking up for ol' number 66. I think he changed the number, but he'll always be our little number 66. Good luck Rick, you'll need it.