The worst thing that could happen

I was sent an email, by a really good old friend of mine, that i have heard before. But when I heard it I thought it was probably true except for it would take a lot longer than the prediction said it would take. But now I see clearly that unless a large portion of people in this nation grow a spine, stop with the politically correct garbage, and live in reality; those same people are going to wake up to a much much worse reality than they are now refusing to reside.
Im talking about the people that think the government in the answer to most our problems. The ones that think that the government should provide them with most every necessity goods, and a large number of luxuries. The ones that think that soon as President Obama takes office, that things will magically get better. If these people would man up and take responsibility for their own life and stop trying to tax me and my wife to pay for their collage and trips to mayce's, we would see this nation take an about face in right direction very quickly. Please listen to this audio. Sorry i had to put one of my photos with it to put it up here as a movie, because Bloger don't allow just audio.


If you are someone who finds this a profound statement, please feel free to link to this page. the truth is at war right now with an ideology that puts America, the greatest nation ever built, on a dangerous path. Please help the fight.

For those who do not already know

I am sure all who read this blog know already that Heidi, my good wife, is pregnant with our second and last child. She is due on my Fathers birthday, April 23, 2009. Today was the day that we found out what we are having. My wife and pretty much everyone else but me and dad thought she was having another little boy... She had the name pick out and everything.
Allow me to digress for a moment... When Heidi picks names they are all so so horrid sounding that when she comes up with one that is half normal i have to just say okay. that one is not bad. But then she'll start to combine the name that I okay into one name, figuring that the two names together will be okay as well.
So she picked out ---- ----- -------. (I had the name written out here but she said it was still confidential and could not be revealed.) But it wasn't to bad. Just not normal.
As you can guess we are not having a boy. Heidi is very upset about it, and cannot explain why a girl is so bad. But her and Deegan both just cry when its mentioned.
Back to names, for a girl I have wanted to name her Linnéa. (li-NAY-ə (English)) I have wanted to name our kid this since before we know Deegan was a boy. Well back when Heidi was sure this kid was another son, she never said anything against this name, but now that is will be a girl, Heidi is not so ready to acquiesce.
I went to the ultrasound today with her, and I am glad I went. I was there to hold my sobbing, broken hearted, wife in her time of need. I stayed home for about 45 min longer than I should have to talk to her about it. She really is kind of crushed about it all. I don't know why though.
AND! I think that Linnéa is a super sweet name for a little princess. It is a swedish name. "From the name of a flower, also known as the twinflower. It was named by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who named it after himself, it being his favourite flower."

this is important.

No matter what your political views are, its important that you fill out this survey. Dr. Diane Medved is writing a book about the definition of marriage. She is gathering data on the subject through this survey.

She is also saying that she needs more people that are left leaning to take the survey, so that she can get a realistic view of the USA for the data for her book.

Also if you would link to her thread http://brightlightsearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-do-you-mesh-roles-of-husband-and.html

This is a real survey, you don't have to answer thousands of questions about products, or sign up for this or that.

Just a Cool Boy

It just occurred to me

I thought that this country righteously fought a great civil war on the principle of being able to keep the fruits of your own labor. And now a person, that is of the very race that was among the greatest beneficiary of that war, wants to take away a greater part of the fruits of all of American labor, including you and me. Ironic I think. Pay back time, i guess.
I know some of you are thinking, but Josh, but Josh, he's only going to raise taxes on people earning over 250 grand a year. Thats true. But guess what else he is going to do? He is going to let the bush tax cuts expire. That will result in a tax increase for every single American across the board. And guess what, he don't call that a tax increase. He just gives some dumb justification on it.
Barry also just declared soon as he gets into office he will sign an executive order
to stop all domestic drilling. He singled out Utah in that bid. Guess why? Because all the trucks driving on the dirt roads out here in the dry desert kick up dust, and then the dust lands on the rocks. Yup he want to shut down drilling, and my job by the way, just because the rocks that are outside in the dirt and going to get dirty.
I thought in the campaign of the president elect that he was all for the undereducated and the poor. Well where else other than the oilfield is there going to be a whole corner of a state full of the high school educated and the drop outs going to get paid 50-100 grand a year? He is just going to make poor people poorer.
A good public agenda seeks to make poor people rich. Barac seeks to make rich people poor. He said its all in the name of fairness. I don't think that is very fair. He wants to spread the wealth, how do you do that if the wealthy are not rich any more and there is no longer wealth.

Lucky me.

I took my camera to work today to take some pictures of my sled that was down at the shop, and on my way to work I seen some rather awesome sights. Since I had my camera I took some pictures. I also found this new program from adobe caller light room and I love it. I have the free 30 trial version right now, the real version cast about 300 bucks. So if anyone wants to donate to me so I can continue posing beautiful photos, I am open to it.

All of these were taken this morning heading south toward bonanza from vernal. This fog is caused by the green river. Click pictures for larger images.

I think there is not much more to say after this.

Y'all should watch this and forward it too all the people that are undecided.
Check out this link to this YOUTUBE video.

Read this before you vote. Smartest thing anyone has said this whole year.

Rush

To my blog yesterday.

I made reference to the fact that the media is in the tank for the democratic party. I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it is a documented fact. I have a very very good article here that proves my point. I will just quote the whole thing. The link to where I got it will be in green.

Orson Scott Card – best-selling author, political writer, speaker, and self-described Democrat, takes on the Democratic Party and mainstream media in an open letter making it’s rounds on the internet.

An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America:

His comments:

I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.

This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.

It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.

What is a risky loan? It’s a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.

The goal of this rule change was to help the poor — which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can’t repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can’t make the payments, they lose the house — along with their credit rating.

They end up worse off than before.

This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.

Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)

Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?

I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”

Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.

As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled “Do Facts Matter?” ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com] ): “Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury.”

These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.

Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!

What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?

Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.

And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.

If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.

But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an “adviser” to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.

You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.

If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.

If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.

There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension — so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)

If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.

Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.

But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.

If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.

Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what honesty means . That’s how trust is earned.

Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.

Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’s own adultery for many months.

So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?

Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?

You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.

That’s where you are right now.

It’s not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.

If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.

Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation’s prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama’s door.

You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.

This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.

If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.

If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.

You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a news paper in our city.

whats the most expensive commodity in the usa?

This is really scary to me. Its something I knew was out there but I had no idea that it was anywhere near me. I believe that the most expensive commodity in the USA is ignorance. The ignorance of the population of this nation has cost us so much it is not possible to innumerate. When I say cost not only do I mean money, but also our values our freedom, and our way of life.
I am going to tell you a story of something that happened today. Its a sad sad story, and I think it passes up ignorance and leaves it in the dust. I would call it something more like willful delusion. This type of attitude could cost our country a great deal when one considers what is at stake and the great multitudes of voters plagued with this intellectual gaff. This problem will be perpetual in this nation; because the very people that posses it are the same people that consider them selves to be the elite, the educated, the informed, and the nuanced. The only ones who have a right to lead.
My story...
I was at work today and a person sent me a text. "Are you still a Sarah Palin supporter?"
I replied "you betcha"
Then later I asked "why"
The response came back to me "Weird. You realize the only experience she has is two years as a governor of a town big as vernal. She's completely under qualified to lead the country. It's seems really bizarre to me."
This comment, to me, is what seemed "bizarre." I thought that perhaps this person was just subject to the massive spending in tv adds of the Obama camp, and his secondary branch the news and entertainment media. So I called my friend and had a chat with them. They informed me they were busy so I was not able to get much in. I stated that Sarah was a mayor for 6 years then a governor of a whole state for 2 years. My friend said yeah well thats still only like 8000 people. She said that the only things Sarah talked about for her experience was that she was a hockey mom. I tried to make things a little more clear to him/her for about 30 more seconds and they said they had to go.
When they hung up the phone it hit me that this person may not have known the difference between a Governor and a Mayor. That a governor was the executive of a whole state and all the people of that state, with a much larger budget and a much much larger responsibility than a mayor. A Mayor is the executive of a town or a city.
My friend said they got the info while they were awake late at night and couldn't sleep so decided to do some political study. I assume that meant the internet. So i did a little search myself tonight when I got home from work. Googled Sarah Palin, and the first thing that came up was Wiki's page one her. (Not like it was to hard to find) Where you find that she was a member of the city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002, she chaired the alaska oil and gas conservation commission from 2003 to 2004. She was governor in 2006 to present.
If there is a question of experience, how come you don't hear the Obama camp. talking about it. Why? because that would open the door for questions about Obamas experience too then wouldn't it. The news keeps howling about it but not Barack or Joe. Things would come out like Obama has only showed up for 142 days of this term as senator. (His only term by the way) Six years in the senate and that all her could muster. Or how about his votes as present, instead of for or against, 30% of the time. I thought being president of the USA required you to make a stand and stick with it. How does it sound to have a president that will vote, "yeah I'm here" 30% of the time.
What about Sarah's state that she governed? Its a small state right? Well land wise it is the largest state by far. Not to mention the only state that shares a boarder with two foreign countries. One of which is kinda hostile to the US right now. That means shared airspace and waterways, trade and all the rest. What about the population of her state. Ranked at 47 with 683,478 souls is fairly small, I agree. Delaware, it only has 864,764 people and ranked 45th. Why is that relevant? That is the state that Joe Biden hails from. A whopping 180,00 more people.
I posted awhile ago that experience was not that big a deal for me. I am a brand new equipment operator and I am beating the crap out of people with 25 years on me. Or like they like to put it "I've been doing this longer than you have been alive!" Like it matters.
One more thing, Biden admits that Obama looks weak and is going to invite an international crisis upon election.
Here is some that he said.
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking... Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. . And he’s gonna have to make some really tough — I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur...I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right."

Like I said it is going to really cost the US a lot when we have to start paying for the ignorance of the people that vote for the ticket of the left. The first and third most liberal people in the senate. I hope my friend will read this and know that there is much more to the story than they think. Try to educate yourself a little better. My same friend admitted to me a while ago that most people he/she knows are going to vote for Barack because he is black and they want to see a black president. And none of the people he/she know are black, that I know of any way. (which is just as raciest in my opinion.
My friend and all his/her friends have the ability to cancel out the votes of all of us that take the time to KNOW the issues.
I know it was long but thanks for reading. Link to this blog if you agree or not. Lets get the word out. Only 14 or 15 more days.

shady and shifty a little freaky deaky!

No i am not one to buy into conspiracy theories, but i figure if Hillary Clinton said it, it must be true. Snopes confirms it and the mccain palan campain are talking about it. Also very smart people think that dreams from my father, barac obama's first book, was ghost written by this man. Suggesting that there is a little more than obama says there is.

I know that many of u will not take the time to read about this, but i have and really believe it. I will just suggest that you read wiki's story about barac obaba and bill ayers relationship. To me i don't know how you live just down the street, kick off your political career, and serve together in differing comities, you can say that you don't know someone. really barac was in bills home to announce he intentions as a public servant. There was not many people there so it was an intimate setting and they raised money there. Please click the like above for more info.

Next there is significant proof that Bill Ayers, admitted domestic terrorist (who wishes he could have done more), could have been the ghost writer for the thing that really has made barac his fortune. Please read this and see what i mean.

Again the links to the pages i have mentioned can easily be reached by clicking the green text in this post.

to pack or not to pack...

Not to long ago I went to a class and sent in the paperwork for a concealed weapons permit. (not going to tell you weather i got it or not.) Well that kinda scared my wife that I would (or could) have a loaded hand gun on me at all times. At school, at a dinner, or her moms house.
When I told my sister, Jamie, about my ambition she acted kinda funny then asked me if i "think some ones going to shoot you or out to get you or something?" I said no but there is a chance something might happen, and its better to be prepared than not. And she slowly consented.
Well last night in vernal utah a young man was shot many times standing out in front of a little coffee stand called shivers and jitters. The cops got the guy, and the kid is alive i believe, but still. I haven't had protection on me to this point, but just to think that out side in the middle of town and right off of highway 40 someone was shot multiple times make me wonder where and when else it could happen.
So Jamie yes I think that some one could and would shoot me. I don't even have to know him or her, and it could happen in any town. And I bet that man would not have thought about shooting if he was sure the victim had a gun on him at that moment.

Jamie comes home.

my wife had a good post about this, but i just wanted to put my picture up on my own sight. so here they are. i took some time taking a few photos up at my dads cabin, most of them were portraits. So see one see them all. plus i was just playing around with depth of field and compression. it was fun for me to see how to do different effects with my camera so that i don't have to do them on photoshop. however they are not very pretty to look at. the pictures are not, but my sister in them is a pretty good looking girl. i am not going to post any of the crappy ones.This was one of the ones that i was just goofing with compression. But i thought it turned out okay enough to post.
This photo actually took for freaking ever to do on photoshop. I am happy with the way it turned out though. and by forever i mean like, well long enough that heidi took a nap and woke up before i was done. it was fun to learn what it did though. i think it looks authentically old. for once i am happy with my work, not just pleased.
here is a before shot of the picture just above.

and to all readers of B.A.R.M.... don't be afraid to comment on any of my posts.
click on image for a larger version.

who gets offended?

lately i have been hearing about a lot, i mean a lot of people getting offended. by the silliest things. i am seriously appalled about this. small little things are making people crazy. not only that but people are scarred to talk cuz they are scared of offending others. i was on the phone the other day with a friend of mine and was a bit tired. a couple days later when i talked to him at church he was really worried that he had offended me some how and he really couldn't figure out how. just because i didn't sound normally happy on the phone. Not because there is something wrong with him, but because this is a near universal problem.
so here is my spin on it. when i was a young man, like 9 years ago, i this is what i decided. and i decided this on the basis of what i have felt personally and recognized in myself. i truly think that the only reason a person is offended is that some one found out something about them. i believe that most people somewhere deep down know all of their short comings and try very hard to hide them from themselves and everyone else. and to some extent feel a guilty about those things. so when another person finds out one of these safely guarded secrets, the person try what he/she can to keep that hidden.
finding out the truth about some one that doesn't want you to know it is about the only thing i can think of that would get them to the state of being offended. personally i believe if you are the type of person that gets offended easily, you are giving to much power to other people over your life. think about that for a moment before you get to offended. if you get on my blog and are offended for one minute, you have just given me complete control over you life for that moment. how much worse is that if you are offended for a whole week end. personally that is a power that i absolutely refuse to give to someone else other than me.
i happen to believe that people who do get offended are most likely looking for a reason to feel like a victim of some sort. to get some kinda of sympathy or something.
there was a point in my life when i decided to try to get rid of all my favorite sins and that i didn't care who found out about them. not saying i have been successful, i still have many imperfections. but i don't cry about people knowing them.
now i have spoken just about truth. what about people saying things about you that are not true. (witch i think is rare after high school) who cares! let them tell lies, i don't care about lies about someone else or about me. water off a ducks back. if someone is saying or writing lies about you... really who cares! there are far more important things to do than cry about a silly lie!
in short the mind is an amazing thing, and guess what, you can control it. if we are sad, we can tell ourselves to be happy. if we are tempted with something bad, we can stop an walk away. there are always choices in life. we don't have to choose to be mad or offended if something we don't agree with comes across our path. we can choose to just be happy. my three year old has figured that out. i think if he can do it we all can do it.

Nothing else to say to this.

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

to every american.

Watch this the whole way through. And pay attention when he walks away. I love America! I happen to be in Mexico right now and tomorrow is their independence day. And.... well i just want to say America is the best country on earth! No question about it! Click on this link. All green letters in my blogs are links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

Work Party.

This friday my little family and i was lucky enough to be able to borrow my dads camper again and go camping on the lake for two nights and three days. Friday night I was going to try to make it to the lake early enough to get on fostins boat and ride the sky ski. But guess what, Heidi's sister was late... again. .. and well its getting old. Just about everything we want to do is negatively affected by her. But it was a good time anyway. I loved it. We just had a lot of fun. I took about five thousand pictures and only had like five good ones. I didn't photoshop any of these photos.
This is Jaden.
Just some fire.
I liked the way the fire pics looked so... more fire.
Grandpa Fred. (real name Allan Justice)

salmon run

Tonight me, heidi, deegan, and rouzer went an hour and a half up the mountain; took a wrong turn and finally made it to sheep creek to look at the Kokanee Salmon Run. We seen three or four. But i got some okay pictures. For the first time here are two pictures that i have not photoshoped. They are totally the way that they came off my camera. I am happy with them.

This is the water where the salmon should be.

ya'll know who this is...

Heidi said I had to.

My dear wife in her blog said that I would write about my weekend. I was not planning on it. Plus she said that I took some really good pictures, but i don't think i did. The only one that I did like is already on her blog.
So anyway about my weekend. For over two weeks I have been planning a spectacular ride this for this weekend. Then about about a week ago we decided on devils playground. Well friday we hustled and got the camper over to altonah then come home so that I could wake early and go riding. We got to devils and well three min later I had an unfixable hole in my left side radiator. I jumped my bike down a 30' cliff. Smart, eh?
Then Heidi had to go to church on sunday and didn't want to drive the chevy home so i drove her. Without a thought of how fast we were going I was just driving, casually talking and taking our time. When I passed a sheriff on a 35mph road going 62mph. He didn't cut me much slack. The idiot, after figuring out my ticket told me I was going 29 over. Is it just me or is the difference between 35 and 62 not 29? I could be rusty on my math. I could see if he said that at the spur of the moment but he was in his truck for ten min. with a computer figuring this out.
All and all with out any of the cost of just going to altonah i am out like 4-600 buck.
nice.

Ive been hoping for early snow. even just a small bit, hoping for a sign of a good winter. I do love my sledding. and guess what i found on the internet tonight. its snowed 1.1 inches today at the trout creek snowtel tower. winter is coming and i couldn't be happier.

qualifications to be president of the usa.

with the nomination of barach and sarah, there has been a lot a talk about what qualifies one to be president of the greatest nation in the history of this planet. i would like to give my humble opinion. I don't think that many people with agree with me, but i think that i am right.



there are just certain thing in life that you cannot be prepared for, but there are character traits in people that can be predictors on how they will handle the job. being a parent for example. no matter how many degrees one has from an ivy league university, they are no more prepared to be a mommy or a daddy than a high school drop out. however, a deep set moral core and a set of traditional values can greatly determine the success of a new parent.



these values are what i believe to be the very thing that would qualify someone to be the president of the usa. not one person can teach you to be the pres of the vp. there has only been 43 people that have ever been there to give you first hand experience. (witch is the best type of person to teach on a subject.) but even if one could make it possible to gather all 43 presidents in one room and teach barach obama everything that they learned while being the president, that would do him no good. he is missing the core attributes that would make him a good person to lead. he would need to change his whole system of values.



barach obama would, i believe, make the wrong choices in any new or old situation presented in front of him. no matter how many facts he has at his disposal, because he looks though an anti-american prism he will choose poorly. he has been educated at the best schools this nation has to offer. and to me that means nothing.



the president of the usa is faced with choices that have never been presented to another human before each month. 911 for example was something that could not have ever been predicted. no group of people could have taught president bush how to handle that situation. the center of his belief system is what guilded him through that time. and i happen to believe he has made the right choices.



if there is an argument out there about experience or time spent is what qualifies a person to be a leader, the arguers obviously have never had to lead. i have had leadership positions, small but still, and i don't care how much i would have watched others do it, or read about it, or studied or worked in a lesser capacity, i would not have been prepared. what did prepare me was something that was already inside of me. the things that prepared me had nothing to do with on the job training. it was strong decisions that i made a long time ago about how i was going to look at life. it was my ability to trust others to do their job and know that they were competent.


sarah palin in my opinion is far more prepared to be the president of the united states than barach obama is to be a scout master. this nation cannot afford the policies of bary or his vp. not only the nation my me personally. my wallet is not deep enough for him to raise taxes like he wants to. bary don't think that you or i are smart enough to spend our own money. he wants to take it from us and spend it for us. he lacks that moral center that a leader needs. he lacks trust in you and i to do what is right. he does not think we are smart enough.

people that work in washington have more interns and educated advisers working for them than we know. they are given more info about every subject than they can come close to reading. they don't need to know everything about everything, they just need a filter to look through to make the right decisions. and that filter should be conservatism. it works every time it is tried.

blanchett park

last snow season, dad and i wanted to try to make it from dry fork to his cabin by going around the top of the mountains on our sleds. long story short we didn't even come close. couldn't even find the trail. so today heidi deegan and i went looking for the trail from the opposite side that dad and i did on our snowmobiles. it was a good day. my poor cracker got the crap kicked out of it going down the rockiest roads on the planet. we stopped a mile sort of the end of the road and walked the rest of the way. at the end of the road deegan and heidi wanted to wait while i went to look at some stuff. i got lost while i was out there but made it through the knee deep mud and pooring rain to finally get back to them. lost my dog too. some mountain man i am. doze found his way back to heidi and deegan just fine and left me out to drown in the pouring rain. i was also stressed because i left my family in the rain at the end of a long hike in the middle of a bear infested junglish forest. all is well now didn't find what i was looking for and had all the fun i could hope for.






just some pictures that i took along the way. this is one photography trick i have wanted to try for awhile now. the water is the trick. i like the effect, but there was too much sun to do it like i wanted it.

took this one for heidi she though it would be a good pic.


i have a wireless remote that i wanted to use. so i took this pic.







more of the water effect.

Boots Chivington's show truck.

Beings as B.A.R.M. stands for being a real man, whats more manly than this truck. I took heidi to see it and she said "that truck.... well.... its nicer than our house! It was a sweet ride. Not much cooler than that. Its all just so big that one picture cannot to it justice, and a bunch of pictures together cannot get close either. One must see it in person to get the effect. It won best of show and three other trophies in the show it was in this weekend. Best of show is the best award by the way. The only one that matters.
These last two are the same pictures just photoshoped differently.

sire

My studly dog did it again. He had a couple of dates with a girlfriend of his and well they went all the way a couple of times. We were worried that he didn't do the deed with her because the owners of the girl boxer said that they never did it. Plus they were only together for short times and like twice. So... Well they had nine puppies and I guess the rest is history. Get a hold of me if you would like to have a good litter of Boxer puppies and are in need of some stud services. Oh and ps the green letters in my posts are links to other pertinent information.

Nothing to do

Just got bored so I made this vid.

Last night I went with some good people to go riding. It was a really good time. One of the best parts was I didn't have to go to my wife's nephews birthday party. It was also the first time that I took my camera. I have this program that goes with photoshop that I have never tried before, so thats why I but this animation up. I made it in that program. It is supposed to be a .gif image. It is supposed to be an animation of 8 photos that were taken of me and Ryan in sequence. Click for larger image.

This scared me to death. I was getting ready to hit this ramp for like the third time at this distance and this guy just stood up there right in the middle of the way. I didn't know if I was going to clear him so i went a bit faster than I needed and over jumped the landing a bit. But I cleared him.

This is my neighbor down the street that I go riding with. He is good!


Same guy.

Unintended Consequences

I happen to believe that the second wave of the feminist movement has completely destroyed America in a way that is almost irreversible. It will always be irreversible if the anti-male movement continues to refuse to acknowledge their role in causing it. Many interviews that are on record have proven to show the irrational justification of the so called liberated woman. They tend to rationalize away everything by saying that it is just another example of oppressive men trying to brainwash the masses into the stone age again.

Before going down the abbreviated list of things the feminist did to destroy this country lets look at the good. There can be no person in their right mind that would say that suffrage and equality were negatives to our society. Womans suffrage and work place equality are perfectly worthy causes that I, if I were alive, would have joined that fight for and march down the streets with the brave and righteous women that did. I would never champion the thought that those parts of our history should be erased. But rather something that we all as American should be and are proud of.

There are however some parts of the feminist movement that proved to be a huge detriment to our life here on this continent. I don't believe that when this was all started that it was a intended part of the plan. I don't think that there was a group of conspirators that had a hidden agenda. Although there have been severe consequences that no one seemed to be able to predict.

In late 1963 the phrased "womens liberation" was first used. And in early 1964 this phase became a huge movement. At the very core of this movement was the idea that the very institution of marriage, in it's traditional form, was the epitome of male oppression. There became a massive uprising of women declaring that if a woman was to remain a stay at home mother they were giving in to the master plan of the evil and diabolical men. Women were no longer seen as women if they were happily married and had children and had no job. The forces of RADICAL feminism had weaved their poisonous tentacles into the fabric of each and every town by the late 1970's.

Today we can see the result of this has been a statistical decline in the happiness and quality of married since the 60's. And a statistical incline in the rate of divorce and single parent families. Male role models have been taken out of homes and instead demonized as the big jerk that doesn't pay child support. Little boys that live with their bitter mothers are continually told all men are going to rape and drink and hit and abuse and not have a job. So was born the dead beet dad.

In the 60's another detrimental aspect of our life was instituted. The idea of living together, or shacking up. If a woman choses to shack up with a new stud while still having children that live with her, what is the lesson that she is teaching her young son? That young boy is learning from his mom that he can find a girl move in and with no work or commitment can have an unpaid whore to do with what he wants. Then when he get bored or mom gets to bitchy he can just walk away. Then what happens? Mom gets a new stud and history repeats itself.

Wile all this is happening this women's children are being stuffed into the closest daycare and have to compete for the affection of mommy and daddy with mom and dads shack ups. Children are forced to grow up not knowing what it is supposed to be like. Non committed relationships have tore apart a vital part of the natural growing proses of our kids. Luckily for a small number of kids they don't have to go through this hell. Some women, like my wife, still love their kids enough to stay home and raise kids in the best manner known for their development.

Now I have to agree that men are the weaker sex. Women have all the power in our relations. That is if they choose to use it right. (reference the Boleyn sisters and king henry the 8th) But since the second wave of feminism, women have been choosing to do things all wrong.

Men are very simple. Theres a little more to us than this but really this is where women's power comes from. Men will do what ever it takes to get in bed with a woman. Like I said we are not as shallow as that sounds, but at the core it's true. Lately liberated women have chosen to make it a lot easier to achieve our goal. In past times there was an unwritten expectation that in order for men to get a women in bed he had to do a large number of things. A man had to be a gentleman, have a good enough job to support a wife and kids, be respectful, honest, loving, impressive, motivated, smart, patient, and be able to fallow through on his commitments to marriage. He had to be able to do all that and more because that is what a good woman required to him.

What does a man have to do today? Not much, does he? Basically he just has to either have money or be able to dance well. Now if you are a "liberated woman", let me ask you a question. Does it look like this is a good direction to have taken the nation? How come the most commonly asked question among women is, why can't i find a good man? Are there any good men left? Now that woman have gotten out from under the oppression of a traditional marriage, it is possible for them to be truly free. Right? I don't believe so. If you couple all the demands of feminism (fantastic career, free sex, ect.) with the natural desires to be a mother, we have a recipe for misery. If not for the woman, than for the children.

In writing this I did not have a written outline or even a plan with extensive research, so sorry if this sounds rambling. But even though this post isn't backed with references from college professors or noted professionals, it is true and easy to understand. I believe that it is clear.

The good new is that there is a growing number of women from my generation that are beginning to see the faults of their mothers and grandmothers. A whole population of women that are proud to be feminine (not feminist), and not in constant competition with a man or men. A wonderfully happy group that realize they have special skill that men do not and are grateful for that and the ability to use those skills. I am very happy that I am married to such a woman. A real woman. She makes me happy and I try to do the same for her. We are a team that works well together. Instead of competing against each other to be the best at this or the best at that or have the better job or make the most money. We are different and know it and use those genetic deferences to complete the head of our family. Deegan needs both of us they way we are. I hope that men and women can come to realize the benefits of having a wife that lets and encurages him to be a MAN.

I don't plan on any more of my posts being like this. I just plan on them being about the fun kinds of things that real men do and shouldn't be ashamed of. (Like swimming in dirty ponds.) Not saying I do it all perfectly or that I am the example of a real man but just that I am able to do some of those things from time to time and that my wife lest me feel good about it.

Wal-Mart Genuine Steakhouse

Here's the first post.

I have a belief that from birth men and woman are different. I have a little boy that is only three years old and from birth he has been very masculine. In this blog I will try to contend and document that through the last forty or fifty years "pc" (politically correctness) and militant feminisms have radically transformed little boys into sex neutral things. And the result has been men that have grown up into something very different than what was known as normal just two generations ago.

Since the sixties our culture have been demasculating young boys in school and eventually the homes. Feminists through their original good intentions have transformed into people that have chased the good male role models out of their homes. Creating what is not the single mother norm. Little boys grow up drugged to get rid of their natural energies. They are taught through example as well as literally that little boys just grow up to be predators and dead beats. What chance do they have when from birth the cards have been stacked against them.

In this blog I don't want to make a case for male chauvinism, but rather for chivalry and good manners. For treating a woman like a lady instead of a shack up unpaid whore. I want to try to let others know that it is fine to be a man and to be manly. That its not a bad thing for our kids to loose and not get a trophy. And that testosterone driven activities do not need to be drugged into non existence. That there is something very wrong with a whole gender into neutrality.