An answer to a friend.

I told you the other day that I was going to answer an e-mail that was sent to me in regards to my blog on August 13th.  He is a buddy of mine, who unfortunately has moved clear across the country and I only get to see once a year, If I am lucky.  We had many a good times in high school.  So in no way is this to be a rebuke or chastising of my friend.  Rather a polite retort of his opinion.

Please take a minute to read his response and then I will give my rebuttal.

Don’t forget McCain supporters to my friend… Check the voting record you may be surprised how liberal he and most republicans are now I don’t like Obama or any previous President because they all sold the American people down the river in one sense or another. Defend the constitution like the founders preached and you will have a prosperous and safe nation… It blows my mind that if you ask someone about China they freak out and say they are communist and the masses are controlled by the few. Hilarious when we to are run by a group of criminal elite. We are hardly different but our gov puts up a facade and the majority of us buy in… The democrate republican parties are a false paradigm. It’s a dog and pony show. It’s a joke. The president is predetermined by the very powerful. Take the red pill my friends…
Liberal or not we have to define the role of government. It may not be governments role to decide on many social issue. Please tell me you don’t listen to Sean Hannity? Any time the word liberal is used I think of him because all he does is blame the worlds problems on liberals. I’ve got news for America and all the conservative loving people out there. Ron Paul is the most conservative politician and they spit in his face. The voting record doesn’t lie and it is something that can be calculated. Hannity likes to think he knows something but in the end he is a tool of the man promoting nation building through overthrowing sovereign nations… Ron Paul words are identical to the constitution and many Ronald Reagan speeches available online. It’s amazing all he preached was freedom and the constitution and people who think they are so patriotic missed the truth. It breaks my heart to so this happening to our beloved republic…
http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=UmsP95Bl9pM
www. campaignforliberty. org
www. ronpaullibrary. org

To summarize the e-mail, in my own words, is to say that our current crop of politicians or past presidents has let us down and that Ron Paul is the man for the job.

Whether Democrat or Republican, they have “sold the American people down the river in one sense or another”.  Guess what, I whole-heartily agree with that statement.  The idea of power and legacy is more important than doing the right thing.  The thing that most of those bozo’s don’t understand is that if they were to do the right thing, their legacy would be larger than life.  They would replace greats like Lincoln and Kennedy as the most memorable presidents.

The second part of the summarization has to do with Ron Paul.  For those of you not familiar with Ron Paul, he is the U.S.House Representative for the 14th District in Texas.  He is a registered Republican with very Libertarian view.  Ron Paul is a very strict constitutionalist.  I find myself agreeing with him on almost every aspect of politics; except one.  The war in Iraq.

Ron Paul’s international policy is one of nonintervention.  Basically, one of don’t mess with me and I won’t mess with you.  While that sounds ideal, it is impossible to achieve.  Without America’s intervention in WWII or The Cold War, who knows where the world will be today.  How many more Jews would have died at the hands of Hitler?  One hundred million dead at the hands of communism would seem like a flea on a dogs butt.  Without America, Saddam and his sons would still be murdering, maiming and raping the people of Iraq.  He would still be trying to acquire or would have acquired nuclear weapons.  All around evil would still be a common day affair in Iraq.

Yet, we shouldn’t help.  Who cares if these innocent women and children are killed or raped?  It’s not me.  It’s not my daughter.  I should turn a blind eye, right?  Wrong!  Wrong! and Dead Wrong!  While we make up such a small portion of the world’s population, we seem to be the ones everyone comes running to when there is a problem.  We need to be there to help out when injustice is being served.  We are like the Superman of the whole world.

So for that reason I will not vote for Ron Paul.  It may be one issue on a long list of issues.  However, it is one essential to the safety and well being of our country and of the rest of the world.

Until next time.

Super short blog..yet one to think on

Today’s blog is short and sweet.  Read the quote and truly think about it.

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

                                                                                                            John Adams

Hopefully, tomorrow I will have the time to respond to an e-mail that a buddy sent to me in regards to yesterday’s blog.  Fun stuff.

Until next time.

Commies approve of Barack, why shouldn’t I?

Good Wednesday afternoon all.  I’m getting ready to head out after another extremely busy day at work.  It seems to never end.  What do these people think I am here to do?  Produce!  Little do they know my diabolical plans to use there computers and equipment to spread my agenda around the world.  BWAHAHAHAHA!

I would like to respond quickly to my friends comment that was added to yesterday’s blog.  The point was brought up that this was not a war on Islamic Extremism rather a war on terror.  I politely disagree.  A typical war, if there is such a thing, is fought between countries.  For example, the Russian/Georgian conflict that is currently going on.  Some wars or battles in the past have been in regards to religion.  For example, The Crusades.  However, there has never been a war fought against a tactic.  For example, Terror.

Terror is a tactic that the enemy is trying to us against us.  The try to terrorize us by bombings, flying planes into buildings, etc.  We are not attacking just the tactic, rather we are after the people perpetrating those tactics.  They would be the Islamic Extremists.  They do not represent a country yet they do believe in converting the world, by any means necessary, to their religious ideology.  Therefore, we are in a war with Islamic Extremists.

Please don’t take that as a mean response but rather a polite retort to your assertion.

The one thing I want you to take a look at today however is another extremist.  No, not a Islamic Extremist or someone who will blow up a building to gain power.  Rather, someone who is extreme in their views of the world and the U.S.,  Senator Obama.

We all sit around and think that communism is dead and gone.  I strongly disagree.  While you don’t see it being a prevalent as it was back in the days of the Cold War, it still exists.  All one has to do is look at China.  The super-commies.

There aren’t only commies halfway around the world.  We also have them right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.  Can you guess which candidate they gave their endorsement to?

John McCain - yeah right

Cynthia McKinney - good choice, but wrong

Bob Barr - you are so far off

If you guessed Barack Obama, you get a gold star and can sit in the front of the class.  Don’t believe me.  Take a look at their webpage.

Doesn’t that give you that special tingling warm feeling inside.  I know it does me.  The questions is, will you hear about it on the news?  I bet not.

This almost solidify’s the name of my blog.

Obama is a liberal.

Communist love Obama.

Therefore communist are liberals or better yet:

LIBERALEQUALSCOMMUNIST”

A stretch maybe, but a good one at that.

Until next time.

Obama…Yo’ Gov’t Momma

Well guys and gals, I blew it.  I missed my blog yesterday.  My bosses were in Virginia on business and I still had no time.  One would think that having no bosses around would ensure an easy, slow workday.  Not in my case.  I was slammed and I even had to work late.  Something just doesn’t seem to jive there.

Over the weekend Tiffany and I hosted a couples baby shower for a friend of ours.  There were quite a few people there, some of which I knew and some I didn’t.  Little did I know that in my midst was someone who seemed perfectly normal.  She looked like a normal person.  She acted like a normal person.  She could carry on an idle conversation like a normal person.  She had a big flaw about her.  Something so scary that I am nervous about telling people.  It is something that could potentially be a huge embarrassment to me and my family.  Something that could get us kicked out of our super secret circles that we run around in.  OK, here I go.  Here’s the dirty little secret.  GULP!!  I can’t say it.  I am turning red faced with embarrassment just thinking about it.  Well, here goes nothing.  She…  She is….

SHE IS AN OBAMA SUPPORTER!

There I said it.  I feel I need to sit in a confessional somewhere and say ten Hail Mary’s.  Please forgive me and give me eight lashes with your cane.

I just can’t believe that someone with half a brain could actually want to vote for this guy.  I am no fan of McCain’s but at least he has some good ideas.  There aren’t too many but at least there are enough.  Obama on the other hand is an inexperienced hardcore radical liberal.  A big government, no individual rights, tax me to the grave and beyond liberal.  He wants to talk without any preconditions to Iran yet he talks of attacking Pakistan, an ally in our war against Islamic extremism.  Something doesn’t sound kosher there.

He associates himself with the most radical of people in our country, yet claims that he doesn’t hold those views.  Jeremiah Wright who shouts “God____ America.”  William Ayers, who was a member of the Weather Underground, which bombed a New York City Police Station, the Pentagon and ten other locations in the late sixties and seventies.  He is pictured in a August 2001 article in The Chicago Magazine standing on the American flag.  Click here and see it for yourself. He is also quoted on September 11, 2001 (yes that tragic day) as saying,

”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.”

I know the day is just coincidental but the quote is quite shocking.  To think that Obama is friends with and politically as well as socially connected with this man.  Yet he is still the great savior of the United States.  Don’t believe me, see it here.

You know that’s not all of his radical associations.  He is also friends with a convicted felon currently serving time for fraud and bribery.  His name is Tony Rezko.

Those are just a few.  Read this Washington Times article that lays out others.  If you think that Obama befriends these people but doesn’t think just like them, then you are fooling yourself.  It’s time to face the facts and stop worshipping a guy that can give great pre-written speeches.  As a side note.  He may speak well when he is prepared, but he is horrible when it is an off the cuff interview or question.

Just keep those names in mind when you get ready to vote.

Do we really want a left wing radical running our country?

Until next time.

Whew! That was close.

Well folks, I am almost broke my new pledge on only the second day.  I got so busy that I just about didn’t get a chance to blog.  Unfortunately, or fortunately, it won’t be much today.  It is right at five o’clock now and I leave in thirty minutes to head home to an extremely busy weekend.

Today I am really stoked because the Olympics officially start with the opening ceremonies.  I know I’m a dork, I just love to watch them and to route on all of the Americans.  Especially when we are up against all of those crazy commie countries that cripple their athletes when they don’t win.  Not really but it is great to see capitalism reign over socialism even in sports.  I am not to far off though.  Saddam killed or severely tortured members of his soccer team when they lost.  Nice guy huh.  It’s a shame he’s not still in power, isn’t it liberals.  (Even in sports talk you can prove a liberal wrong.)

The games actually started a couple of nights ago with soccer.  I guess they figure no one with a brain is actually going to watch that boring sport so why not get it out of the way.  I think I would rather watch muffins cook in the oven.

I told you this was going to be a quickie.

Until next time.

Do you ever just get tired of people? (I DO)

It was any other typical day.  I woke up.  Got ready for work.  Headed off for work.  Fought moronic drivers the whole way to work.  Arrived at work.  Did some work.  Ate lunch.  Did more work.  Left work.  Fought the moronic drivers once again.  Arrived at home.  Got out of the car and walked up the stairs to the smell of dinner cooking (which is the most exciting aroma to endure when you get home).  Opened the door and there is Tiffany cooking away.  We exchange our typical welcome greetings and began to talk.  She brings up the fact that someone, who will remain nameless to protect their identity, is extremely upset with me and other individuals for “letting them down”.

My first question to my wife was “What?”.  She repeated herself.  I was completely stunned.  I was so irritated now that I just couldn’t say a word.

I immediately went upstairs to put down my briefcase and change into something a little more comfortable for the evening.  The whole time thoughts were racing through my mind. 

Such as…..

I never gave up on you when everyone else had.

I continually prayed for your safety and well being while you avoided everyone.

I called you multiple times a day and only received your voicemail.

I spent many hours talking with other friends about how best to help you out in your situation.

I gave up time with my family to meet you places, only to be stood up.

Don’t give me this crap that I let you down.

Obviously, I was miffed.  The more and more I thought about it the more irritated I got.  The thought occurred to me, “Why are so many people so needy?”  If you can answer that, please let me know.

I truly in believe that as a Christian I should be able to help someone out without wanting something in return or without any second thought.  The problem I have is that some people seem to either take advantage of that or have some kind of personal issues.  I think the whole “Woe is me” attitude has taken over much over our society.

I have never considered myself a very needy person.  All I need is God and my family.  Everything else is a want or it will work out with the other two needs.  Never have I needed attention to feel better about myself.  Never have I needed reassurance on a daily basis.  Never have I needed someone around me 24/7 to reassure myself that I have friends.  Never have I needed to be constantly interacting with someone to feel important.  Never have I set myself up to intentionally fall.

If you are sitting there thinking I am referring to you, you may be right/you may be wrong.  Only I know.  However, you must have some of these attributes to be feeling this way.  It is truly something to think and pray over.  Think of how you can help others rather than have them help you.  Think of how God can help and sustain you.

Until next time.

Rebirth of the blog

“The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.”  F. Scott Fitzgerald

It has been awhile.  My life has just been one thing after another.  I thought summer was suppose to be easier and slower than during the school year.  However, this summer has been the complete opposite.  I am so ready for things to mellow out.  The problem with that is, if I mellow out than everything around me mellows out and nothing gets done.  I’m stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

Enough griping.  I am excited to be back at it.  I will be writing daily from here on out.  I changed the site up slightly, as much as the free service will let me.  I did design a nifty header for the site though.  I am quite proud of it.  Probably the biggest change that I am foreseeing is the quantity of writing.  Due to time constraints with having to have a real job and actually producing to make my paycheck, I will not be able to go on my long diatribes.  While the looks of things to come is smaller quantity in writing I hope that it becomes larger in quality.  I will still go on political rants and complaints about situations surrounding me or whatever I feel needs to be said.  I will just do it in a more condensed version.

This new setup is going to be hard because I like to be as detailed as possible.  I like to build the story and detail it in your mind to the best of my ability.  I guess we will see how it goes.

The moral of the story is to check in everyday.  Multiple times a day.  I may have multiple blogs in one day.  I may publish in the morning or I may publish in the afternoon.  Who knows?  All that matters is that I am publishing once again.

Until next time.

You tell me……….

Has this question ever popped into your mind?  I know it has mine.  Once again, it is creeping back there.  It kind of gave me a punch in the gut last night and just this morning it hit me up side the head with a frying pan.  I bring this up for two separate situations.  One involves a friend of mine who is a few years my junior and the other involves a family at my church who are also a slight bit younger than I.

Let me start off with my bud.  His name is Josh Gladden.  He is in his mid-twenties with a full life ahead of him.  He has been married for a few years now and is living his life for the Lord.  He is involved with our church in many aspects and has a relationship with the Lord like none other.  I have known Josh for a about a year and a half now.  He was in our Sunday School class.  We both attended a Thursday morning men’s prayer group together for about a year or so.  We became pretty good compadres in that time.  Recently he was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer.  So he had surgery and the removed the tumor and one of his testicles.  Which we get a good laugh at.  As you can imagine, men can use this kind of sad situation to come up with many funny, light-hearted jokes to help calm the nerves.  I myself have cracked a few jokes at his expense.

After his recovery and after a good CT scan, everyone was feeling pretty confident that the surgery had done its job and that was that.  Unfortunately, that was not the case.  He talked to his doctor yesterday and they are thinking about possibly doing more surgery to remove the lymph nodes and possibly do some chemotherapy treatments.  How scary is that?  My mom has been through chemo and it is no fun at all.  So why is this allowed to go on while somewhere some pervert pedophile is living scot-free and living until he is 95.  Where’s the justice or moral equivalence in that?

The other instance that really got me this morning had to do with one of my families of which I am the Deacon.  Their names are Frank and Sarah Lee.  They have a two year old son and just recently had twin girls.  It was just discovered that one of the twins has a bleeding brain tumor.  A precious little baby is having to suffer.  For what?  What has she done to deserve this?  Did she go out and murder someone?  Did she attack a poor innocent child?  The answer is obviously, NO!  She is a tiny, precious gift from God.

Those two things have been weighing heavy on my mind.  By no means do I have the answer but I can only take a shot at what God’s purpose is behind it all.  What if the loss of this poor innocent baby brings God back to the forefront in their family?  What if it gets just one nurse or doctor to become saved and live forever and ever in Heaven?  Would that be worth the loss? 

Our preacher mapped it out this past Sunday beautifully.  He went through a whole long list of preachers and evangelists and how each one witnessed to another until he came to Billy Graham.  If your familiar with Billy Graham, you know the amount of people he has reached with his ministry.  The main point being, what if just one person in that chain would not have been saved or turned away from God.  The end result would be that Billy Graham may not have become saved and neither would millions of others who followed his ministry.  The same could be said for the suffering that these two individuals and their families are going through.  Just think of the possible people that their testimonies could lead to Christ.  Would it be worth it then?

Obviously, my hopes and prayers go out to baby Anna Kate and to Josh.  I hope that both come through with flying colors.  That they may use this in the future as a testimony of God’s divine power and love for each one of us.  So let’s just take a minute to pray for each of them.  Ask God’s blessing on the individuals and on the families.  Ask God’s guidance and wisdom for the doctor’s and nurses that will be taking care of the both of them.  Pray for their friends and support structure to be there for them no matter what the cost or need.

The big thing to remember is to……………………PRAY!

Until next time.

Happy 4th of July (Can you handle the freedom?)

Just like a virgin on his wedding night, this blog is a little premature. However, tomorrow I will be out where no Internet can be found. For I am packing the camper up tonight and off we go. A long weekend of having nothing to do. Just sit around, relax and hang out with friends. It doesn’t get any better than that.

So it has been a little bit since I have been able to blog, Sorry. I truly am. I have missed venturing into blog land, especially with all of the crazy happenings in the news. I have a back log things to pontificate on. Today, I want to focus on the Fourth of July.

Sit back and think to yourself, “What is July 4th and what is so important about it?”………….. Have you contemplated long enough? For those of you who aren’t well versed in American History, July 4th is America’s Independence Day. The day our country adopted the Declaration of Independence declaring us free from Great Britain.

We had truly become free. The men of the time had fought and died so that we could be a country that is free from religious persecution. We were free from taxation without representation. We were free to live the lives that we saw fit for our own families without any outside influence.

What we as living, breathing Americans of the 21st Century need to do is take a good hard look at what these men fought for and ask ourselves if we are upholding that tradition of freedom. Take a minute and truly think about that. Can you handle the full responsibility of the freedom that they fought for?

They fought for “True Freedom”. We have no idea what that concept entails. We have been sheltered from “True Freedom” for so long. We are cottled (Not Chad or Katie) from the minute we are born. Anytime we stumble we are propped up with some kind of government program to keep us from falling. I have found that falling is the best way to figure out where you went wrong and what you need to do to keep your footing next time.

Everything is handed to us on a shiny silver plate emblazoned with a stamp reading “Property of The United States of America”. We are spoiled rotten. Name another country where the so-called poor weigh in at three hundred pounds have the latest, greatest cellphone and a flat screen T.V. It is unheard of. Compare the average poor person in America to the middle class person in China and we still have the advantage. Yet we want more government involvement. We are scared of the “True Freedom” and want our safety net.

Some people talk a good game of smaller less intrusive government, but could you really handle it. What if there were no public schools? What if we didn’t have Earned Income Tax Credits? What if our doctor’s weren’t federally licensed? Could you live a life where it was your responsibility to handle just those three simple things. These are a mere molecule on a flea on the dog’s butt. There are so many ways that our government intrudes into our daily lives.

I am going to give you a little game to play this next week. Anytime you do something, anything, ask yourself “Where was government involved in this?” I know it’s not as fun as sitting down playing Apples to Apples or Playstation 3. It is very informative though. I can guarantee you that you will not be able to find one thing. If you think you have send me a message and I will respond back to where they are involved. That’s a guarantee.

So as we go out to indulge on hot dogs, hamburgers and the beverage of our choice. As we sit back and watch those beautiful controlled explosions that have been manufactured in China blow up in the sky, ask yourself “Could I live like the men and women who started this great country?”

Until next time.

I promise I’m still alive (but, I wish these gas prices would die)

Good Thursday morning all. As my title says I am still alive and kicking. I might not always feel like it but I am.

It all started Friday, when I had my first softball practice. Nothing bad happened at practice but the next two days were pure stiffness and discomfort. I didn’t realize that there were so many muscles in my body and that I actually use them that much. When I woke up Monday morning I was feeling pretty good. My muscles seemed to be back to normal. So Tuesday rolls around. I am beside myself with excitement that my first softball game is that night. I decide to go into work about and hour and a half early so that I wouldn’t have to work late and miss my game. So I get there around 7:00 a.m. and get my breakfast ready. While I am getting it ready I start to get a pain in my lower abdomen area. I thought it was nothing and tried to get back to work, but I couldn’t even sit down. I tried to stick it out but I just couldn’t. I left work and went to Northside Hospital Emergency Room. I had a strong suspicion of what it was but I was in need of some serious pain med’s. Once I got back and got an I.V. of the good stuff, I found out that I had a kidney stone. So I have been home doped up on Oxycodone. Today has been the first day that I haven’t taken any medication, at least not yet.

So, I have done a whole lot of nothing while watching a ton of television. This includes watching a whole lot of FoxNews and reading The Drudge Report. The big story seems to be the gas prices and what to do about them. I am getting fed up with this whole gas situation. I am tired of the high prices and I am tired of the government not doing anything about it. Finally, President Bush calls for drilling off the coast but our wonderful Democrats decide instead of relieving our problems now by increasing our output they want to take control of the oil refineries. Don’t believe me, click here. Imagine that, Democrats wanting to seize control of a private industry. Sounds a little like something a Socialist nation would do. It really gives validity to the name of my blog.

I agree the gas prices are ridiculous and they are affecting me directly. I drive a Ford F-150 that gets around thirteen miles a gallon. If I’m lucky. I bought it with a different rear end so it will tow my travel trailer easier. This takes anywhere from two to three miles per gallon off of my total. So I am directly affected. However, I am not turning to the pathetic government to solve my problems. We need to be drilling here and now. There is a petition that needs to be signed if you agree. Go to www.americansolutions.com if you agree with me. Hopefully, these morons will get a clue.

If we start drilling now it will send a message to those in the Middle East that we are serious and I would bet $1,000 that oil prices would drop immediately. They would know that we are more than talk like the cowardly Democrats. It would show the world that we will do what it takes to keep ourselves safe and keep our people happy. Gas prices would plummet and this would be a thing of the past.

However, if the big talker Barack gets his way, the oil companies would be taxed on their profits which means that the price of gas would go up even more. As we know, corporations don’t pay tax. They just pass them along to us in the form of higher prices.

Without getting into a whole boring array of economic terminology, the clear answer is to “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less”.

Until next time.