Friends, or rather buddies!

Hello fans, thought Id throw in a quick entry here this morning.

I wanted to say something about friendships and share it. Its one of those things that are most times self explained. Friendships. Its the next best if not the same as family. My best friend in the photo has been pretty close the last few years, about 18 years to be certain. We met under strange circumstances for sure but that's a whole different story. But for this entry Ill just say it was fun. Its rare that one feels like the soul mate has been found. To me I truly believe I have that in this lady. Shes a hard worker, strong spirit. Not so much into politics but listens to what I say and asks questions. LOL, sometimes I have to get on this thing and find answers. No I don't know everything either! LOL

She cooks a mean lasagna and hey when a woman can cook that's about all that maters right? No I'm kidding. LOL. She is definitely my equal. See, once before I didn't see that and it cost me big time. But now I live a different ideal and its worked for me, or rather us. Not a love story or the sort. But its true when someone finds that perfect friend nothing else really matters. You work out the problems and move on.

In a hey lets go do something gesture we went to see Ralphie May live in Little Rock. What a blast! My friend here happens to be pretty close to some of Ralphies family so we went by invitation. The old days Id have probably stayed home and been an ole fuddy duddy. Not now. I enjoy getting out and doing stuff with my buddy. And the best thing about my buddy is she loves the outdoors as much as I do. Now how can that get or be any better? It cant in my book.

So here's to my buddy. Hugs!

Attitude have I? Part Two

Attitude have I? Part two

In my second post I want to touch upon something that I think no one has yet. That’s attitudes among Patriots. One always get the scream of its about the cause, its about the cause. But in essence its more about I, you or some one on disagreements. Always!
And most times I’ve found that these disagreements get pretty bad. Any why is that happening among us? We all want the same thing right? Well of course we do. But how in the world can we gain that if we can’t get along? It’s like a house full of brothers and sisters. Always a fight, argument and never ends! This one said that about this one, that one ate that ones coco pebbles. The whole house is in an uproar! Of course I do admit to being in the middle of some of these pissing matches. At times it’s entertainment. Many many years from now I suspect that these writings, blogs and forums on the Internet will become part of Patriot history. Like our revolutionary war. Although part of our history I can imagine the very same aspect of the disagreements among our forefathers. Granted some how or another they pulled it together and done it. After of course having their asses handed to them several times. Simply put in my term that I understand is that as Americans we don’t get along. We love the train wrecks in our lives and for some reason it helps us in times of aggressions. And right now, our train wreck is upon us in this 2008 elections. Why is that you may ask? Well because we Patriots really don’t get along and I doubt we ever will. But one thing I’ve learned about all this is the fact that in times of aggression we pull our selves together for the common goal, or in this case the cause. Its been asked about the when. When will Americans pull their heads out and do the job needed done. Personally I’m betting on the elections. But my fellow Patriots even then it is no guarantee. Never has been or will be. With the exception of the Reagan years. Yeah ole Carter pussy footed around with the Iranian hostage situation. But how quickly they were released when Ronnie took the White house. I only base this on assumptions of what the Iranians were thinking would go down if they weren’t released. Just an opinion of my own. Very few good Patriots lived in the American White house. A house designed by an Irish man and built by Patriotism among immigrants. True!
I may not get along with some people on the inter net or agree with somes actions. But God bless you all for being Americans and willing to go that step if we have to. But the question still remains, what will it take to step up? I think that time is soon coming. The day we go vote for our new POTUS! There’s a bunch of folks running for this seat and not very good ones in my opinion. And I’ve always stood on the grounds that no man or woman is perfect especially in this election. A lot of talk about this one and that one running for office. Ron Paul I think is the one most people talk about. Good or bad he is in the discussions. Some think of him as a crazy little old man and some think of him as a God of some sort. Me, I think our country needs a complete enema and if some one like Paul can get it started then what’s the harm? No one is perfect, granted. But what do all these other candidates have to offer? Nothing really. All about the same crap as have been in the last 50 years. Name a president that is a history maker? In the last 60 years? Kennedy, with the Cuban ordeal. Now here’s a man that stepped up and said no, Ill kick your ass!
We need a history maker in this country. I don’t think Huckabee, or Obama can do that. I think they are no different that any other person working to get in the house.
Of the three branches of our Government the POTUS is the executive branch. Can he make the changes in this country to turn us around? I don’t know. But I do know as a nation the American Patriot is pissed. And when an American is pissed we have the only outlet to release that anger, it appears to me that our selves is where the attention goes. I my self blame this on diversity and culture. But then there’s an event that pulls us together as nation. Such as 9/11
Remember how we all prayed and pulled together? I do. Remember when we were told that this certain country is the blame for it. And as a nation of Patriots we wanted someone’s ass?
Military recruitment's went up. America prayed and held ritualistic rites on side walks and on the streets for remembrance of those lost on 9/11.
To this day, I can not sit and watch Twin towers all the way through. Attitude? Have I? Yes. As a nation that leads the world in military strength why are we playing around with these terrorist? Why are we sending our children to a war that that to me, isn’t working. Everyday there is death from some idiot with a bomb strapped to his or her waist. Looking back in time as history tells us the Japanese was so much worse than today’s terrorist. I say this based on what I know from History. The atrocities that were put upon prisoners of the Japanese are some times UN speak able. Bayoneting babies for Gods sake. The terrorist we deal with today simply blow stuff up. But the Japanese, the Nazis had a different way. A whole hell of a lot worse. None the less. When we took out the major cities on the Island of the rising sun the whole attitude changed. Like, Oh shit! The Americans aren’t playing any more; we better straighten out our selves. Now, Japan is a huge economic power in it self. Same with Germany with democracy. And none of comes with out a huge cost. But think back, look what the American culture done to pull it off. A unity! We recycled, we sacrificed, and we worked to win a world war. Attitude have I? Where is that Unity today? And if we can’t as a nation do it again we are in trouble people!

Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for Part three!

Attitude have I? Part one

Well of course!

Let me explain. Once upon a time I pretty much liked everybody except for a small few. Which I thought to be "Communistic" And now, the few that I hated I have learned to like. Not because of stern hard Moderation of forums and such but a realization that they, upheld the standard of the forum they moderated. Know what I mean?
My self the fighter of free speech came to realize that in its purist form is un doable. In essence, people love train wrecks! I kid you not!
One time I owned a 10 second drag car. Nice an all and ran strong every time. I was always consistent on the clock. As time went on I became better at that clock running 5s and 510s on reaction times. And if your consistent there you get in the win almost always or at the least get great points on Dial ins. One night, it was a normal TNT, Test n tune. I ran the ole Mopar hard. I wanted to really give it a work out. Boy did I ever!
About the 60ft I hit a slickie and spun. Hit the wall and then shot plumb over to the other side flipping my 340 duster twice! Total crash!
As I got out of the cage and looked at the smoke and rubble I saw the people in the stands. Standing, applauding raising hell! They loved it. Of course there were the few that saw what really happened and had concerns for my health and my crashed car. I went broke. And wrecked a sweet 340 4 spd A body! (see before Pic)
Now back to moral of the story here. I come to understand the people I posted on forums with, battled with, and debated and some that I come to call family and friends.
On the internet its pretty much anything goes in terms of forums, or blogs. When you have that many people in one avenue of communication there will always be the few that kick you in the nuts. Its a must! I founded a forum myself because of this few I refer to. And watched as this forum grew into more than I ever expected. And when it became, as Pantera sings its becoming as the few was.
Heavy moderation, is hidden when its "family" in question. In other words if you care for someone as a moderator and they get "pissed' and delete, ban, change passwords of such then by all means, its ok. Right?
Well not exactly. Not in my book anyway. But the problem I found was that as a so called founder of the forum I had no chance in hell. I let it grow into a nightmare as far as admin goes. I had no chance to correct the issue or resolve it. Why? Because it was already gone. By that I mean it had already been took over and done so over my head. No problem with that other than it hurt a few seconds. Then I got pissed and paid the favor back by showing their own dirty laundry. ( which I think now to be a bad choice )Only for a couple days though. Wasn't any point in over doing it as they have done to me with the innuendos of duel personalities. LOL, I still get choked up on that one!
But hell, Even I couldn't have come up with a better way to discredit a former figure on a forum. Especially when that former figure pointed out the injustice. Rather you like someone or not as a moderator right is right, wrong is wrong!
If there are rules, you abide by them or get the moderators input. If the rules get laxed that's ok to. But as a moderator you uphold your end of the deal as well. If a member pisses you off, no problem you deal with it. But utter deletions or better yet, change that members password then fuck with them? Explain to me the moral correctness in that one.

Now I Mention some names here only to point out a fact. Well, abbreviations any way.
Og, CH, AZT to name the "few" has made me realize that in its purist form freedom of speech is
explained here.

While an open free speech forum is a laudable goal, it's just unrealistic in it's pure form.
Og

Stay tuned for the 2nd part soon to come