BIG MIKE'S RAMBLIN'S

Another steal from Jeff...

2008-09-04T13:53:00.000-07:00

This was a good video Jeff K. sent out today. Thought I'd post it since Danny R. was too lazy to do so... :) sorry Danny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFKGrmsBDk

It's a little long, but good points made.

Thought for the day...

2008-03-14T05:21:00.001-07:00

Good morning to everyone. Thanks to Jeff for sending me this email. Thought I'd share with everyone... Good points on the RIGHT TO BARE ARMS!!!

"The firearm in Civil Society Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100- pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living i n a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

Posted by Marko at 7:06 AM)))))))))))))))))))))))))TRYOTE #896

That sums it up for human interrelationship - personal defence - national defence, and the fools who think that the bad and the mad can be made good by making the majority of people, their potential victims.I am able to pen these words - have an occasional rant etc, not because police or doogooders were there to protect me, but because reasonable law permitted me to have the effective means of self defence against those who do not abide by, rather exploit others who abide by law."

More sense, from a black man at that!

2007-10-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

Ok. I'm glad to see someone else saying what seems to be common sense to me. And even more glad to see it coming from a black reporter, so Mr. Sharpton doesn't come out with another white-conspiracy theory... (I won't copy and paste the entire artice, but here's the link)

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7343980?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=5

I agree 100%!!! This stupid hip-hop/gangsta image that some folks think is cool, and even more actually use as a way of life is killing any creditbility a black man has. If Mr. Sharpton ever wants to get his point across to the masses in a respectable way, he's gonna have to get that part of the community to wake up and ditch this mentality and way of life.

Hot ghetto mess...

2007-09-21T12:49:00.000-07:00

Sometimes people wonder where I get some of the stories of the people I deal with on a regular basis, and this is a funny video of a true situation. I have customers that act very much this way, and sometimes alot worse. But enjoy all the same, and be glad you don't have to deal with this lady on a regular basis... ( and pray for those of us who do!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGrqW3nx5HM

Way to go, God!

2007-09-21T09:39:00.000-07:00

I heard about this last week, and glad to see the follow-up report on it today...

LINCOLN, Neb. - A legislator who filed a lawsuit against God has gotten something he might not have expected: a response. One of two court filings from "God" came Wednesday under otherworldly circumstances, according to John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Omaha.
"This one miraculously appeared on the counter. It just all of a sudden was here — poof!" Friend said.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha sued God last week, seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty for making terroristic threats, inspiring fear and causing "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."
Chambers, a self-proclaimed agnostic who often criticizes Christians, said his filing was triggered by a federal lawsuit he considers frivolous. He said he's trying to makes the point that anybody can sue anybody.
Not so, says "God." His response argues that the defendant is immune from some earthly laws and the court lacks jurisdiction.
It adds that blaming God for human oppression and suffering misses an important point.
"I created man and woman with free will and next to the promise of immortal life, free will is my greatest gift to you," according to the response, as read by Friend.
There was no contact information on the filing, although St. Michael the Archangel is listed as a witness, Friend said.
A second response from "God" disputing Chambers' allegations lists a phone number for a Corpus Christi law office. A message left for that office was not immediately returned Thursday.
Attempts to reach Chambers by phone and at his Capitol office Thursday were unsuccessful.
___
Associated Press Writer Anna Jo Bratton in Omaha contributed to this report.

Wait, WHAT????

2007-09-07T11:38:00.000-07:00

I just read this article, that made me think the American medical system is not nearly as bad as we all complain about it to be...

"BANGKOK, Thailand — A cancer patient lying on a gurney waiting to be treated was fatally bitten by a snake, a hospital in western Thailand said Friday."

Here's the rest of the story. If you chose to read it... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296038,00.html

I guess the old saying" it could always be worse" would apply to America. But if it were me in that bed, I'd stroke out before the venom had a chance to work!

JUST A RANDOM THOUGHT

2007-09-06T07:09:00.000-07:00

GOOD MORNING FOLKS! I WAS JUST SKIMMING THROUGH THE DRUDGE REPORT, AND NOTICED THIS SPOT...

Stevie Wonder is the entertainment at Oprah's Obama party, sources tell DRUDGE.... Oprah is having a post party dinner for 200... and her favorite Ethiopiean chef, Mollie, will cook... She is inviting her friends to come early and meet Barack and his wife... The most successful fundraisers on the finance committee will also be there, for some face time with Oprah... Developing...

UH, AN "ETHIOPIEAN CHEF"??? I THOUGHT ETHIOPIEA WAS A STARVING NATION???
ALL THE COMMERCIALS I GREW UP WITH WITH SALLY STRUTHERS BIG OL' SELF SELLING CHILDREN SPONSORSHIPS? WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT? DID ONE OF THOSE KIDS GROW UP TO BE A FAMOUS CHEF?

OH WELL. CAN'T FAULT OPRAH FOR BEING DIVERSE, I GUESS???

BUCHANNAN/NUGENT 2008!!!

Email Etiquette

2007-08-23T12:08:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon. Keep in mind, this is just my random thoughts or ramblin's, so please, no one take this to heart. This is not intended to be pointed towards anyone as I am the perp as often as the victim in this matter...

Have you ever received an email, for like the 100th time, in the same week, and thought "duh... Is this person stupid, or just that old/slow/or fill in the blank?"

I have received the hand puppet email maybe 10 times already this week. And everyone that sends it to me makes a comment of how cool it is. Nice video, but it IS just hand-shadow puppets... My first thought after the last time was "come on folks!!! Get over it already!!!"

Please, before you respond to anyone sending stuff like this with an ill-mannered response, think of the person sending you this email. The item may have struck the person so deep to their heart that they felt compelled to share with anyone and everyone willing to listen (or view or read) again...
Or maybe they haven't been keeping up to date with their emails, and it is new to them...
Or maybe they just forward everything without thought that all those fw,fw,fw,fw,fw,fw 's in front of the title means it's been around the world 10-15 times already...
Or maybe they're just dumb and an ill-willed reply would just be a waste of time and energy anyway?

So, before you snap off a reply to someone who keeps you busy filling up your deleted email files, think of that person... and maybe forward it right back to them! Keep their e-trash as full as yours! :)

Buchannan/Nugent 2008!

Hot enough for ya?

2007-08-20T07:09:00.000-07:00

I wish I could write like this, but I can't, so I'm stealing this which was emailed to me...
My thoughts exactly as far as the little things that remind you how hot it is every day.
(not that I would ever own a cat... but most of the rest of it I have experienced, and I know most everyone else has too!)

A Diary Review: Moving South, 2007
May 30, 2007 : Just moved to Huntsville , Alabama from Chicago , Illinois . Now, this is a city that knows how to live! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park while lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.
June 14, 2007 : Really heating up. Got to 100 degrees today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.
June 30, 2007: Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. The yard is a breeze to maintain! No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love living in Huntsville .
July 10, 2007 : The temperature hasn't been below 100 degrees all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy, but getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.
July 15, 2007: Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson, though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.
July 20, 2007: Morgan (our cat) sneaked into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000 leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and shits. I learned my lesson, though. No more pets in this heat.
July 25, 2007: The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer! And it's hot as hell! The home air-conditioner is on the fritz, and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order the parts.
July 30, 2007: Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. The monthly house payment is $1,500 and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
August 4, 2007: It's 105 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today for a cost of $900. The temperature gets down to 78 degrees, but this freaking humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95 degrees. I hate this stupid city.
August 8, 2007: If another wise ass person cracks, "Hot enough for ya today?" I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!
August 9, 2007: Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my ass was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat. August 10, 2007: The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for two damn months, and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing will be next, so I might as well watch $1,700 worth of cactus just dry up and blow into the damn pool. Not even cactus can live in this damn heat.
August 14, 2007: Welcome to HELL!!! The temperature got to 105 degrees today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail. Freaking South. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?

I especially love the line "now the car smells like kibbles 'n' shits..." funny stuff!
Buchannan/Nugent 2008

Why is society so anti-Christian?

2007-07-31T14:13:00.000-07:00

I read today out of Ft. Worth, Tx. that a company wants to place a special edition of the New Testament in with the Sunday paper. Here's a little of the article...

"A Christian ministry wants to deliver custom-designed New Testaments to newspaper subscribers around the country as part of an effort to find innovative ways to spread a Christian message. But even in the Bible Belt, not everyone thinks that's a good idea.
International Bible Society-Send the Light is planning on spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to distribute Bibles with 11 newspapers during 2007 and 2008. New Testaments would be packaged in pouches on the outside of newspapers, much like soap or other sample products
Some of the outcry has come from one of the least likely sources — Christians. Bob Ray Sanders, the Star-Telegram's vice president and associate editor, said some worried that the Bibles tossed on the lawn with the newspaper would be thrown away because most people already own a Bible."

Then another quote... "Do you have any idea how blatantly offensive this boneheaded move is to the thinking public?" a Fort Worth reader wrote in one of several letters to the editor on the topic.

OK, I understand non-Christians having an issue with this, but other Christians?? Personally, if I am given a bible, I hold onto it. If I ever get the opportunity to help someone with their salvation issues, that bible might be the one that helps them come to Jesus? Why would I just throw it away? And why would I have any problem receiving one as a gift? or a free one for any reason? Just doesn't make sense to me.

And why have we as a society become ashamed to be seen as a Christian nation? or are we anymore? I guess Christians are seen as the weak, nerdy high-school kids, that are quiet and forgiving but perceived as weak and foolish? But let someone speak out against Islam or atheist and watch the fur fly! Similar to a conversation about race where all the world is against the white guy, the country has gone against the Christian guy? I guess the true minority in America is the white-protestant-christian-heterosexual-male!!!

All the more reason to VOTE BUCHANNON/NUGENT in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!

Round is a shape... day 3

2007-07-27T08:05:00.000-07:00

Just so you know, these won't get posted daily. I've had 2 days of workouts, starting with Wednesday, so I'll try to post each day I workout, not every day.

Now then, I'm considering charging Joann with a hate crime for the abuse I'm getting. Today was the second session with her and I had to cut it short. The nausea was getting too bad for me to continue.

We started with the "warm up" walk, only this time she increased the speed by .2 mph every 2 minutes. By the 3rd increase, or minute 6, I was smelling burn bacon from my thighs. (which probably started the nausea...) The first machine I was on, started kicking back at me. I'd get a good pace going, and suddenly it would stop for a split second, then continue. I don't know if it was that there was so much weight on it, it wasn't able to handle it... or if the belt was slipping due to all the pressure on the tread? But after the third time I went and rammed myself into the front rail, I decided to leave that machine alone and start over on the treadmill next to it.

Then on to stretching. Good thing, cuz going from 3 mph to 3.6 mph doesn't sound like much, but it was about to kill me. I have grease burns on the inside of my thighs! Stretches were good, although the legs stretches she had me doing had me very conscience of my "junk" being exposed so concentrating on the stretch and balance and breathing was more difficult than usual.

So Joann leads me to the back of the gym so I thinking maybe we'll get away from these leg tortures, and get on to some arms or back machines. WRONG! She wants me back with all the grunting max'd-out droids to embarrass me further. We begin to to squats. Not on a machine. Not with free weights. Just me. To get my form right. Great! Look, watch the fat guy in the corner that can only squat himself! Not that this was bad enough, but it was HARD!!! Doing it the right way was way out of the norm for me I guess, and I was exhausted after just 20 reps.

Then on to lunges... more charges racking up against this lady! These were difficult also because of the balance issues involved in squatting on one leg. Then it hit me... The gut said "look, keep it up and I'll invoke an evacuation clause immediately!" So it was water break time. (keep hydrated... cuz the old man behind me with the mop isn't busy enough!)

I did give it the old "college try" after that and went one more round with the lunges, but that got the gut to remind me of that clause again, and I had to call it quits. Joann probably saw in my face that the system was beginning to go into reverse, so we went to the front and pick up some gatorade to restock the carbs. That was the end of the workout for today. I wussed out today, but I think Joann would rather that than hold the old man with the mop long enough for him to clean up my mess if I had continued.

Round is a shape... day 2

2007-07-26T08:03:00.000-07:00

Good morning? Yeah, right!

Woke up, not feeling too bad, swung my legs over the side of the bed. I was able to get up fairly easy. Wandered into the bathroom to take care of some morning duties, and found it took me three attempts to get up off the terlet... feeling really good now, huh?

Decided to go back to the gym to swim a few laps. Shouldn't hurt, no stress, just a few easy laps to get the heart rate up. That's what the demon, I mean Joann kept talking about yesterday, so I figured why not.

I was able to walk into the gym this morning without falling, or even stumbling. Until I saw "HER" ... It was Joann... The look on her face was of shear hunger. I know she was thinking "back for more huh? well, I take care of that... get yo big-butt good and tenderized.. my stew is a' simmerin..."

So I step into the pool, nice warm water. I'm thinking if nothing else, it'll help my soreness being in a warm pool. Start to swim across the pool thinking I'm going along quite nice. I feel like I should be to the other side by now, and I look up to find I'm barely in the middle of the pool? What the heck? So I start up again. Swimming and kicking like someone from a jaws movie to finally get to the other side.

Well, I decided I'd try to swim back and forth to make 2 consecutive laps without stopping. Man that lap is long... I made down and half way back before I felt the feeling of drowning. (Only it is a 4 ft pool.) After all of it, I made 10 laps before I checked the clock to see what time it was. I had been there 40 minutes!!! and I thought I LIKED to swim??? I have found there is a big difference in swimming and frolicking in the water!

Here comes the fun part. 4 steps to get out of the water... As I take each step, I feel like someone is putting 100 lb bags across my shoulders. First step wasn't too bad, second step I stubbed my toe, third step I tripped on my shin, and fell over the fourth step. The soreness for the african queen workout yesterday has also zapped the everyday strength it takes to walk up stairs...

So now I look much like shamo, beached upon the surf waiting for the next tide to pick me up and take me back out to sea. My only recourse is that there was no one else in the room to witness the event. It would only add to the ouch to hear some 20 yr old girl come over and ask, "are you ok, sir?" DOH!!!! or worse yet, to have JOANN come over with her stew fork!

Anyway, I'll keep ya'll updated as regular as possible. I get session #2 with Joann tomorrow, I might not even know my name after that, so no promises.

round is a shape, damnit!

2007-07-25T09:17:00.000-07:00

OK, WENT TO MY FIRST WORKOUT AT THE GYM THIS MORNING. I HAVE 3 FREE SESSIONS WITH A PERSONAL TRAINER, TO KINDA GET ME ON TRACK... BIG DEAL RIGHT?

OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD I COULD GET, TALL, SHORT, SKINNY, BUFF, BLACK, WHITE, MALE, FEMALE... THE ONLY PERSON I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO GET WAS A BUFF-BLACK WOMAN, AND WHAT DO I GET? SHAKA-ZULU..... LOOKING TO CHOP MY BIG OL' WHITE-BOY ASS UP INTO STEW MAKINS......

ANYWAY, I HAVE A HOUR SESSIONS TODAY. NOT TOO BAD. START WITH 15 MINUTES OF WALKING. GETTING "WARMED UP"... LADY, IF I WALK 15 MINUTES, THE PLATE BETTER BE WARMED UP FOR BREAKFAST WHEN I'M DONE!!!
THEN 5-10 MINUTES OF STRETCHING. GOOD THING, CUZ THE WALKING HAD ME TIED UP PRETTY GOOD.

THEN ON THE RESISTANCE TRAINING. I'M THINKING, "I'M USED TO THAT. NO PROBLEM..." FUNNY HOW 10-12 YEARS AWAY FROM WEIGHTS MAKES YOUR BODY FORGET WHY THEY CALL THEM "WEIGHTS". THAT SHAT IS HEAVY! AND MY MIND STILL THINKS IT'S THE SAME AS IT WAS WHEN I WAS 18-22... WHATEVA!!!

SO ABOUT THE THIRD LEG MACHINE, AND I THINK SHE'S NOTICED MY EYES ROLLING INTO THE BACK OF MY HEAD, AND BY NOW I'M CRYING TEARS OF DUST I'M SO THIRSTY, SHE SAYS "WE HAVE TO KEEP HYDRATED, SO GO GET SOME WATER".. GREAT! I'VE NOW GOT AN OLD MAN WITH A MOP FOLLOWING ME FROM MACHINE TO MACHINE, AND SHE'S TELLING ME TO KEEP HYDRATED???

WELL, AFTER FALLING 3 TIMES TRYING TO MAKE THE TWELVE STEPS TO THE WATER FOUNTAIN, I FINALLY GET THERE. (I THINK THE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT MIGHT BE CONTACTING THE GYM FOR EXCESSIVE WATER USAGE AFTER THAT TRIP.)DAMN THOSE LEG MACHINES!

OK, WE'RE READY FOR SOME CHEST EXERCISES... WOO-HOO! I'M THINKING, NO BIG DEAL. I'M GOOD ON THOSE... SHE PROCEEDS TO SHOW ME THE FIRST MACHINE. A CABLE MACHINE, WITH A FREE RANGE OF MOTION. GREAT. WELL, THEN I NOTICE AS SHE GETS OFF THE MACHINE TO LET ME ON, SHE DOESN'T CHANGE THE WEIGHT FOR ME... SHE WANTS ME TO START WITH WHAT SHE IS USING? 40 LBS... PERFECT! NOW I'M REDUCED TO USING GIRL-WEIGHTS!!! WOULDN'T BE SO MUCH OF A PROBLEM, IF I DIDN'T STRUGGLE WITH THAT LITTLE WEIGHT!!! BY THE END OF MY FIRST SET, MY ARMS WERE SHAKING LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE GRAPH IN JAPAN!!! I THOUGHT TO MYSELF THAT I MIGHT COULD REPLACE THOSE HANDLES WITH A COUPLE OF MARTINI SHAKERS AND BE OF BETTER USE!!!

THEN, THE FINALE! WE GO TO A SHOULDER/CHEST MACHINE. RIGHT IN FRONT OF A FULL MIRROR. COMPLETE THE TOTAL HUMILIATION!!! THAT 21 YR OLD I REMEMBER SEEING WORKING OUT HAS LONG GONE! NO I SEE A FAT 35 YR OLD, THINKING HE SHOULD SEE A 21 YR OLD... HE AIN'T THERE. I BEGAN TO THINK I MIGHT HAVE SOME KIND OF EYE-DAMAGE DUE TO DEHYDRATION.. NOPE. NO SUCH LUCK. AFTER BLINKING LIKE GENIE LOOSING HER POWERS, I FIGURED OUT I AM THE FAT 35 YR OLD I SEE IN THE MIRROR.

AS I RELEARN HOW TO WALK, AND LISTEN TO JOANN TELL ME THE B.S. STORY OF HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO FEEL THAT BURN AGAIN... (OK, PASS THAT SHAT TO BRUTUS BEEFCAKE OVER THERE BENCHING 300 LBS) I BEGIN TO RETHINK THIS WHOLE STUPID IDEA OF GETTING INTO SHAPE. I AM IN SHAPE!!! ROUND IS A SHAPE DAMNIT!!!

THANKS FOR THE INSPIRATION JOANN!

Get the duck tape... my head is fixin to explode!!!

2007-07-05T10:52:00.000-07:00

ok... read this first. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070705/hl_nm/racial_discrimination_dc

ok... now, how in the world can anyone say cancer knows what color someone is??????

Could it have ANYTHING to do with the fact that the typical black American that is worried about racial discrimination against them on a daily basis is at home gathering change from the coutch to walk up the skreet to the sto to buy another 40 oz that went on sale for .99$, eating fried chicken, catfish, buffalo fish, okra, squash, chitlins, and whatever else they can figure out how to batter up and deep fry while they sit at home watching Judge Maybeline tell some low-down man hows it gonna be, watch Oprah give away another $100k of prizes (trying to figure out which family member's credit they can use to buy tickets to get them to the Oprah show), call all the local lawyer commercials to try to sue the neighborhood store cuz she did a slip-down while wearing her skreet-slippas (house shoes for regular english-speakers) on a rainy day to the store, waiting for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to come to town again for the next rally?

There are many very respectable people (black, white, yellow, etc.) in the world who know discrimination happens and want to get past it by living their life by a simple rule, treat others as you want to be treated. And then there are others who want to live their life waiting for someone else to do everything for them, and wonder why it isn't happening now, or fast enough, and good enough, etc.

To the others, they get what they deserve in this life, or the next....

Buchannon/Nugent 2008!!!

Seat belt laws...

2007-06-15T10:15:00.000-07:00

My friend Jeff asked me why I haven't posted anything new in a while. Well, nothing has really gotten my dander up lately. But I got an email that got me a little ticked, so here ya go Jeff...

Why in the heck do I have to buckle my seat belt? By NOT wearing my seat belt, will I cause damage to another vehicle or pedestrian? Will I cause the price of gas to skyrocket without the use of a seat belt? Will I cause nuclear holocaust if I do not "buckle up"? NO!
Seat belt laws are nothing more than a ridiculous way tax paying middle class are getting screwed again. There are not many kinds of accidents that would cause me, 6'1" and 350+++ :) to go flying out of my vehicle. I was actually in a roll-over accident in 1991 and if I WERE wearing my seat belt, I might not be here today. So I don't disagree with the safety value of seat belts, but they are not ALWAYS the safety feature they are meant to be.
But nonetheless, why is it a LAW that we have to wear it? Nothing but local revenue... Another way for local gov't to fine me for something.

Sad... isn't it?

another shot at gun control.

2007-04-23T07:17:00.000-07:00

A link to an article that again proves that the only form of gun control should be RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP!!!

http://www.mcsm.org/kennesaw.html

God Bless the NUGE!!!

2007-04-20T11:12:00.000-07:00

My nephew made me faint with giddy-ness upon the thought of this ticket in 2008... Buchannan/Nugent... sorry, fainted again...

I can't add anything to Ted Nugent's thoughts on the whole gun-control issue.

Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster

POSTED: 11:25 a.m. EDT, April 20, 2007
By Ted Nugent-Special to CNN

WACO, Texas (CNN) -- Zero tolerance, huh? Gun-free zones, huh? Try this on for size: Columbine gun-free zone, New York City pizza shop gun-free zone, Luby's Cafeteria gun-free zone, Amish school in Pennsylvania gun-free zone and now Virginia Tech gun-free zone.
Anybody see what the evil Brady Campaign and other anti-gun cults have created? I personally have zero tolerance for evil and denial. And America had best wake up real fast that the brain-dead celebration of unarmed helplessness will get you killed every time, and I've about had enough of it.
Nearly a decade ago, a Springfield, Oregon, high schooler, a hunter familiar with firearms, was able to bring an unfolding rampage to an abrupt end when he identified a gunman attempting to reload his .22-caliber rifle, made the tactical decision to make a move and tackled the shooter.
A few years back, an assistant principal at Pearl High School in Mississippi, which was a gun-free zone, retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 from his car and stopped a Columbine wannabe from continuing his massacre at another school after he had killed two and wounded more at Pearl.
At an eighth-grade school dance in Pennsylvania, a boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students before the owner of the dance hall brought the killing to a halt with his own gun.
More recently, just a few miles up the road from Virginia Tech, two law school students ran to fetch their legally owned firearm to stop a madman from slaughtering anybody and everybody he pleased. These brave, average, armed citizens neutralized him pronto.
My hero, Dr. Suzanne Gratia Hupp, was not allowed by Texas law to carry her handgun into Luby's Cafeteria that fateful day in 1991, when due to bureaucrat-forced unarmed helplessness she could do nothing to stop satanic George Hennard from killing 23 people and wounding more than 20 others before he shot himself. Hupp was unarmed for no other reason than denial-ridden "feel good" politics.
She has since led the charge for concealed weapon upgrade in Texas, where we can now stop evil. Yet, there are still the mindless puppets of the Brady Campaign and other anti-gun organizations insisting on continuing the gun-free zone insanity by which innocents are forced into unarmed helplessness. Shame on them. Shame on America. Shame on the anti-gunners all.
No one was foolish enough to debate Ryder truck regulations or ammonia nitrate restrictions or a "cult of agriculture fertilizer" following the unabashed evil of Timothy McVeigh's heinous crime against America on that fateful day in Oklahoma City. No one faulted kitchen utensils or other hardware of choice after Jeffrey Dahmer was caught drugging, mutilating, raping, murdering and cannibalizing his victims. Nobody wanted "steak knife control" as they autopsied the dead nurses in Chicago, Illinois, as Richard Speck went on trial for mass murder. Evil is as evil does, and laws disarming guaranteed victims make evil people very, very happy. Shame on us.
Already spineless gun control advocates are squawking like chickens with their tiny-brained heads chopped off, making political hay over this most recent, devastating Virginia Tech massacre, when in fact it is their own forced gun-free zone policy that enabled the unchallenged methodical murder of 32 people.
Thirty-two people dead on a U.S. college campus pursuing their American Dream, mowed-down over an extended period of time by a lone, non-American gunman in illegal possession of a firearm on campus in defiance of a zero-tolerance gun law. Feel better yet? Didn't think so.
Who doesn't get this? Who has the audacity to demand unarmed helplessness? Who likes dead good guys?
I'll tell you who. People who tramp on the Second Amendment, that's who. People who refuse to accept the self-evident truth that free people have the God-given right to keep and bear arms, to defend themselves and their loved ones. People who are so desperate in their drive to control others, so mindless in their denial that they pretend access to gas causes arson, Ryder trucks and fertilizer cause terrorism, water causes drowning, forks and spoons cause obesity, dialing 911 will somehow save your life, and that their greedy clamoring to "feel good" is more important than admitting that armed citizens are much better equipped to stop evil than unarmed, helpless ones.
Pray for the families of victims everywhere, America. Study the methodology of evil. It has a profile, a system, a preferred environment where victims cannot fight back. Embrace the facts, demand upgrade and be certain that your children's school has a better plan than Virginia Tech or Columbine. Eliminate the insanity of gun-free zones, which will never, ever be gun-free zones. They will only be good guy gun-free zones, and that is a recipe for disaster written in blood on the altar of denial. I, for one, refuse to genuflect there.

Pat says it best.

2007-04-13T11:00:00.000-07:00

"The Imus lynch party" by Pat Buchannan
Posted: April 13, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
In the end, it was not about Imus. It was about us. Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person could associate, he was thrown off the air? Cards on the table. This writer works for MSNBC, has been on the Imus show scores of times, watches Imus every morning, and likes the show, the music and the guys: the I-Man, Bernie, Charles and Tom Bowman. And Imus is among the best interviewers in our business. Not only does he read and follow the news closely, he listens and probes as well as any interviewer in America. Because he is a comic, people mistake how good a questioner he is. Is "Imus in the Morning" outrageous? Over the top at times? Are things said every week, if not every day, where you say, "He's going too far"? Yeah. But outrageousness is part of the show, whether the skits are of "Teddy Kennedy," "Reverend Falwell," "Mayor Nagin" or "The Cardinal."And when Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "tattooed ... nappy-headed hos," he went over the top. The women deserved an apology. There was no cause, no call to use those terms. As Ann Coulter said, they were not fair game.But Imus did apologize, again and again and again. And lest we forget, these are athletes in their prime, the same age as young women in Iraq. They are not 5-year-old girls, and they are capable of brushing off an ignorant comment by a talk-show host who does not know them, or anything about them. Who, after all, believed the slur was true? No one. Compare, if you will, what was done to them – a single nasty insult – to the savage slanders for weeks on end of the Duke lacrosse team and the three players accused by a lying stripper of having gang-raped her at a frat party. Duke faculty and talking heads took that occasion to vent their venom toward all white "jocks" on college campuses. Where are the demands for apologies from the talk-show hosts, guests, Duke faculty members and smear artists, all of whom bought into the lies about those Duke kids – because the lies comported with their hateful view of America?And hate is what this is all about. While the remarks of Imus and Bernie about the Rutgers women were indefensible, they were more unthinking and stupid than vicious and malicious. But malice is the right word to describe the howls for their show to be canceled and them to be driven from the airwaves – by phonies who endlessly prattle about the First Amendment. The hypocrisy here was too thick to cut with a chainsaw. What was the term the I-Man used? It was "hos," slang for whores, a term employed ad infinitum et ad nauseam by rap and hip-hop "artists." It is a term out of the African-American community. Yet, if any of a hundred rap singers has lost his contract or been driven from the airwaves for using it, maybe someone can tell me about it.If the word "hos" is a filthy insult to decent black women, and it is, why are hip-hop artists and rap singers who use it incessantly not pariahs in the black community? Why would black politicians hobnob with them? Why are there no boycotts of the advertisers of the radio stations that play their degrading music? Answer: The issue here is not the word Imus used. The issue is who Imus is – a white man, who used a term about black women only black folks are permitted to use with impunity and immunity. Whatever Imus' sins, no one deserves to have Al Sharpton – hero of the Tawana Brawley hoax, resolute defender of the fake rape charge against half a dozen innocent guys, which ruined lives – sit in moral judgment upon them."It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the airwaves," says Sharpton. It says something about America that someone with Al's track record can claim the role of national censor. Who is next? And why do we take it? I did a bad thing, but I am not a bad person, says Imus. Indeed, whoever used his microphone to do more good for more people – be they the cancer kids of Imus Ranch, the families of Iraq war dead now more justly compensated because of the I-Man or the cause of a cure for autism?" We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality," said Lord Macaulay. Unfortunately, Macaulay never saw the likes of the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson. Imus threw himself on the mercy of the court of elite opinion – and that court, pandering to the mob, lynched him. Yet, for all his sins, he was a better man than the lot of them rejoicing at the foot of the cottonwood tree.

Why people... why???

2007-04-12T12:29:00.000-07:00

I just returned from a 2 hour class for diabetes complications. Boring enough, but might be some useful information, so I decided to go.

But why is it every time you go to a class like this, (something general, not specific, or for any kind of education credits or anything) there is someone in the class that wants to talk , and talk, and talk... usually about something specific to them?

As the instructor was talking she would bring up a subject, discuss it for a minute, then try to move onto the next topic, and BAM! "why is it that blah, blah, blah...?" or "I have this deal where I blah, blah, blah..." WHO CARES!!!!!!! We are in the class to learn something, but that doesn't include learning about your heart rate, your temporary blindness, or your out of control blood sugar!!! We ALL have some type of problem like that, or we wouldn't be in the stupid class!!!! Stop the instructor after class, and let the rest of us finish so we can get the heck out of there!!!

It is a 2 hour class, that could be handled in 45 minutes, if lonely-boy in the back of the room would shut up and let the instructor finish her outline!!! Maybe I'm too conscience of other people, but if I have a question I either get it out and get to the point, or I wait until after class..... But I don't want to hold up the entire class for my question that involves a personal issue I'm having, or something I should be bringing up to my personal doctor...

OK, I feel better now.... Ya'll have a good day...

Don Imus - Racist?

2007-04-10T07:25:00.000-07:00

Don Imus... I don't listen to him. Don't know much about him. Nothing against him, just don't listen to him on a regular basis. I have listened to his show once or twice, but no opinion of him personally.

But tell me what he said was racist? He called the Rutgers Basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed ho's". In the urban community, that's almost a compliment! But I don't hear any racist remark in that phrase? I agree, it was SEXIST... Calling them ho's... But I think the black democrats are looking for ANY and ALL ways to pull the race card out on any white republican. If someone says they don't like their coffee BLACK, then they're racist? If I were to say I am never gonna buy another BLACK vehicle, then I'm a racist? I guess so...

A black comedian can go on stage, and be recorded for millions others to view, and tell you there's a difference between black folks and "niggas", and the country can laugh about it all day long. A white man does the exact same thing, word for word, and he won't make it off-stage!!! He'd be murdered before the end of his act! Black folks can call themselves "niggas" all day long, no sweat... A white man has to whisper the phrase "the 'n' word".

Will we ever see an end to the race-card? Probably, when Jesus makes his return. Until then, we as white, conservative christians will have to continue to be the focal point of any and all racist attacks. WE are the wrong-doers in the country. WE are the evil in America. WE are the reason this country will not succeed past it's 60's and 70's attitudes of race.

Thanks national news media..... WE appreciate it!

Enough of Rosie...

2007-03-30T11:39:00.000-07:00

OK! Watch the following link, and come back to me here...
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?032907/032907_oreilly_rosie&OReilly_Factor&Fire%20Rosie%20for%20Iran%20comments%3F&acc&O%26%2339%3BReilly%20Factor&428&Shows&390&&&new

OK. Fired up now?

This stupid Bitch has the audacity to say that another country is using their own soldiers as a pawn to have us invade Iran? Then actually tell people to "love the terrorists... they are mothers and fathers too..."

Please! Someone send her to Iraq or Iran and let her get captured, tortured, and beheaded.... PLEASE!!!

I am a parent, and the Good Lord would have to be speaking to me(face to face) on a regular basis, much as HE did with Abraham, and tell me to sacrifice my own son, for me to even begin to think about the things that the insurgents are doing to their own children. These people are not MOTHERS and FATHERS!!! They made be sperm donors and baby-birthers, but not PARENTS!!!

And for this bitch to say the things she has on national tv, she she be executed as a traitor to her country.

"and that's all I've got to say about that..."

What would we die from then?

2007-03-27T10:47:00.000-07:00

On my drive to work this morning, I happened to hear a small bit of a commercial for some kind of new wonder drug, or vitamin, or something along those lines. The comment that caught my attention as I was hitting then next channel preset was something along these lines, "1 out of every 2 women die from cancer, heart attack, stroke or heart disease..."

Well, what the heck are we gonna die from if we don't die from one of these 4 problems?
Don't get me wrong... my family has cancer and heart disease all thru it. Actually, my mother, father, 2 sisters, and 2 of my aunts all had some form of cancer in the last 20 years. My mother, father, grandmother, great-aunt, and myself had some sort of heart disease (heart attach, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, etc.). So I hear the clock ticking in my background, and I would be ecstatic if someone did find a cure for for cancer or heart disease (or especially diabetes!). But, lets get real. we are NOT immortal... I would love it if we all were able to just lie down at some time, and go to sleep, and not wake up on this earth, but not everyone is going to be that lucky.

I am all for the research, and hopefully finding a cure for cancer or h.d.. But if and when we do, then are we just gonna become lemmings, and have to walk off a cliff at a certain age? Or will we become like the humans on "The Matrix" and just become pods of electricity for some super-intelligent computer that needs the energy?

Sorry, like the Blog is titled, just more of my ramblin's...

NASCAR Busch series, no respect...

2007-03-26T08:52:00.000-07:00

Well, don't get me wrong. I'm no huge fan of the Busch series, especially with all the CUP guys racing to get more "practice" and messing with the beginners chances to shine for the CUP owners. But what in the world was ESPN/ABC thinking?

I turned on the Busch race Saturday to see what was happening, and I got to see the last 10 laps of the race. Carl Edwards got the win over Cup teammate Matt Kenseth. As soon as the race was over, the announcers told us that they "ran long" and had to go straight to the next show, which I believe was FIGURE SKATING!!! Give me a break!!!

As much money as ESPN/ABC spent to get the rights to show NASCAR, and the cut out the most important thing, the Carl Edwards signature back flip!!! What are you thinking? Not to mention cutting out any and all interviews, with exception to a ridiculous attempt by Rusty Wallace to interview Carl while still in the car! That lasted all of 15 seconds, until Carl came to a stop at the start/finish line and said "I'm gonna go do a back flip now."

Just another reason why FOX sports needs to buck up and take over all broadcasts of Nascar racing (Cup and Busch), as well as the NFL. They ain't perfect, but would never insult Nascar by cutting them off to show FIGURE SKATING!!! go figure, huh?

Personal Resposibility...

2007-03-15T08:31:00.000-07:00

OK! I get it...
After the Clinton years, I've finally got my head wrapped around it... I've seen the light!!!
I've been telling folks over the last few months to a year this is gonna happen, and now, the articles are a flyin'... http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/14/magazines/fortune/sanon.fortune/index.htm

The article is absolutely right! It implies fault is with the lender. They should be condemned for trying to MAKE MONEY... They should realize that normal, greedy, hardly-working "giveittomenow" Americans are not rational enough to understand they might not be able to afford something they want NOW!!!

In today's society of easy-file divorce, bankruptcy, and other "it's someone else's fault" ideologies, it is the fault of capitalism as a whole that I can't afford my $800 car note, my $2200 house note, and my $500 cell phone bill, while working at Mcdonald's. They shouldn't have let me have that car, that house, and let me text message American Idol 157 times last night... Damn the mortgage brokers, the bankers, the cell phone providers, and the tv itself!!!

OK, now seriously... I don't agree with the lenders, banks, and the marketing guys who sell us the life we choose to get over-extended in. But, I don't blame my realtor for showing me a house that I couldn't really afford. I don't blame the mortgage company for approving me for a loan that might become out of reach if me or my wife were unable to work for an extended period of time. I don't blame the B.A.S.S. club for making me want to go buy a $25k bass boat to take out 6 times a year. I hold myself PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for the stupid decisions I've made. I guess that might be a downfall, or a "genetic mutation" for having parents that raised children in a 1500 sq. ft house, and found a way to live with minimal debt on $35k a yr., and paid CASH for almost everything they ever owned... my bad.