B.A.R.M.

Maturing Into a Child.

2010-06-28T21:19:00.002-06:00

When I read this scripture it changed my life...
11. Verily thus sayeth the lord, seek ye out the learned and the wise. For in them is the secret, for in as much as thou learnest from them, ye shall find eternal life.
It is given unto the teachers of teachers and the professors with doctorates to know the mysteries of heave. 1Paul 1:11-12
Ever since the moment I read that scripture I have tried to do just that. My mind is never satisfied, and most the time when I find an answer to a questions it only causes me to ask more questions. I used to try and study the scriptures and pray to my heavenly father, but now I just ask smart people what they think.
For example... if the atonement is infinite and eternal, and it is, then does that mean the people on the other worlds, past present or future, are reading in there scriptures about earth where the savior Jesus Christ was born atoned for their sins? Well I have never found anyone smart enough to answer that question for me.
I have found the answers to some of my unanswerable questions in books that smart people wrote. When I will need to know some thing and I search and search books by people with genius reputations until I find what I am looking for.

Well for those of you that have never heard that scripture before or have been trying to look it up for the last five minutes, I made it up. It is not real. However this is how I have been acting. I have been trying to find my knowledge in all the wrong places.
What I am about to write may be perceived by those who are learned to be immature or a view taken from an uneducated position. (Those of you that do know me know that I am in fact not formally educated. But also know I am very very well informed on what ever I choose to voice an opinion about.) But let me share the scripture with you that leads me to say; no one should care if you think Im immature because this is what the Lord himself has said.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:4
As with all of my post that some may find to be controversial, I do not claim to know everything and most importantly I make no claim that I am even able to practice what I preach just the way that I preach it. All I can say is at times I am trying my best to follow my own direction. This is going to be a story of a lesson that I was taught today while running a dozer and pondering some conversations that I have had during the past couple days. I also want to point out that I really really like all the people that are involved in this story, so if any of them read it don’t get offended. Just think about the above scripture.

For the last little while we have been in an area at work where the government has required us to have a paleontologist to monitor our work. One day my dozer broke down and I had time to sit and talk to one of them while I waited for parts to arrive. Turns out not only was she a scientist but also a returned missionary. This made me wonder how she would reconcile the differences between the scriptures and science concerning the origination of the planet and humans. We had a long conversation. It is not my intent to argue with all you smart people how evolution and creation can work together. It is however my intent to share with you what I have learned about my own dealings with my God while I was discussing the subject.
The first thing that was said by her when I asked her the question was that “God has to operate within the laws of science.” This is a statement that I have heard since I was just a little kid. It is something that I have accepted for a long time. I mean really... it is something that you hear all the time. And when ever someone talks about evolution it is the first line that you hear. So the whole time we worked within that premises. The next statement is always “what, you think that the two cannot work together?” So we also worked with in that premises. (I have to admit, I am intimidated by those who are educated and also I don’t want to look like I don’t have an open mind so what I said my not have represented my full belief at the time.)
Her points were:

There is a reason that God used evolution to accomplish his goal.

The whole purpose of evolution was to create man as the goal.

There is so much fossil evidence of so many extinct creatures.

Evolution stopped when Adam was finally achieved, because there was no longer a need for anything to Evolve.

Science’s only working theory is evolution.

In Abraham it don’t call the days of creation days, it call them “time”. So each step could have been billions of years.

And some more that I cannot remember right now.
My points were very provocative to her, most of them caused her to change what she had said to the points that I listed above. Some of them she told me she just didn’t have an answer for. We discussed the matter for awhile. I came home and talked to my wife and told her how impressed I was with this scientist, and was very interested in her way of thinking. I started to buy into her way of thinking. After a few hours I started to find peace in the matter. Then my wife said something about the conversation to my in-laws, and in unison they asked “what, you think that the two can’t work together.” I said some things I think, and my father-in-law thought it best to end of conversation.
Then today I was at work early in the morning and thinking about the subject again. As I was pondering the matter (pondering is said to be one of the truest forms of prayer), a thought came to my mind. “I should be careful of the things I start telling God that he cannot do.” For example, “God must work within the laws of science.” This may or may not be true. Through history there have been a few people that have seen and talked with either God or Jesus Christ, and I cannot recall in one of the written account that it was relayed that the source of Gods power is his knowledge of the laws of science. I am not saying that knowledge is not one of his strong suits. But what is the source of his power? Does God have the power to create the earth and everything in it in 6 days? Or does he not have that power, and only enough power to organize it all in 4.5 billion years?
...for he rebelled against me, saying, Give me thine honor, which is my power; and also a third part of the hosts of heaven turned he away from me because of their agency;
D&C 29:36
1 And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.
Moses 4:1
When my mind had caught upon these two concepts another scripture sunk into my head. I couldn’t quite quote it just right then, but I remembered enough to find it on my Ipod touch. Something about “having a form or godliness but denying the power there of”? So I looked it up. When you read these verses you might notice that I have them mixed up a bit. This is a pet peeve of mine because people always do this kinda thing to make the bible mean what they want it to mean at that very moment. And if it weren’t for two things I would not do this myself right now. ONE, this is how they came to my mind while pondering, I think I might have been guided in that direction. TWO, I have read the whole chapter and the one before and after and I don’t think that it changes the context of the verses at all.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, [and] proud... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth... Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away... But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.
2 Timothy 3:1-14
Knowing of whom thou hast learned them.... For far too long I have been learning of men. Trusting in things of science. I have been looking for answers in the writings of uninspired but well meaning people. I have been trusting the words of those who,well; honestly I trust. But that has lead me to try and force MY GOD into a box. Supposedly I am a man of faith, but have been trying to justify my faith through the learning of fallible man. A person that is faithful should be trying filter the learning of man though the truth of faith. Not trying to filter what is already true to fit some idea that makes sense to our minds right now and will be proved wrong later.
I just looked this up. Did you know there are 18 actual LAWS of physical science? Every other thing that a scientist says is just the best knowledge that we have at this point. Do you know how the scientific method works? One comes up with an idea and then try’s to prove it wrong. If they can prove it wrong then they change the idea and start over. The proponents of evolution do it the opposite way. They have the idea of evolution and thousands of ways to prove it wrong, but they are working tirelessly to try and make the damning evidence fit their bad idea.
I have come to an understanding of where I think the lines of Gods power and evolution cross. I feel good about it. But what I feel better about is from now on I will not question the ability of my GOD. He is omnipotent. He is omnipresent. He is omniscient.
My paleo friend made mention that in Abraham it refers to the creation as just time periods, and not days. There is one other way to interrupt the phrasing.
13 And it came to pass that they numbered the days; from the evening until the morning they called night; and it came to pass, from the morning until the evening they called day; and it was the third time.
Abraham 4:13
Now that I am seeing things differently I think this is even clearer than in genesis. In Genesis when it said days, one could say that is by the time reckoning of Kolob’s time. 1day = 1000 years. But here in Abraham it is saying that on earth the sun went up and went down then came back up again for the third time. Leading up to this scripture it said the same thing except for the second and first times. After this scripture the sun came up, went down and back up again for the fourth through the seventh times. Sounds to me more like God did have the power to make everything just the way it is and just as we know it in only six days and then took a well deserved brake on the seventh. I would have been way tired after all that work.
I hope I remember this lesson I was taught. I still wont tell you the way I think our existence was brought about. But you can trust me that all the rebuttals you have, I have already thought of and answered them to my satisfaction. I love my God in heaven, and pray that I can be a more faithful man. I want to trust him above all else so that I can lead my family to exhalation.

Learning from teens

2010-06-12T10:06:00.000-06:00

Parenting.

I was teaching a class full of 14 and 15 year olds the other day and asked them a provocative question. I was not expecting such fair and wise answers, but sure enough the way the children said what they did surprised me how enlightened and unselfish they are. See we were discussing a story in the old testament about a dad and his two sons. In the story the dad was not only their father but the nations spiritual leader as well. He had been a righteous man and lead the people well. But when his two sons grew up to be spiritual men as well they weren’t so good.
The two sons only wanted to serve themselves. They were doing things like taking peoples sacrifices by force and eating them. It was also later learned that they were kinda forcing women that came to the tabernacle to lay with them. They were completely self serving men.
Their father was still their dad and the prophet. It was his job to go down and set his children right. He talked to them and told them that they were doing bad things and that was it.

We discussed some of the story in more detail and how God had reacted to these three people differently. The lesson manual had asked me to ask a question to the class on how we as parents can do a better job at raising our kids. Since I was teaching a class full of kids I decided to ask them this.
I said; lets say, if your mom and dad would listen to you, how would you teach them to be a better parent. Keep in mind that their biggest worry and priority is to make sure you turn out to be a good adult. You are at the age right now everyone says is the hardest age to have kids at. They want to help you and be your friend, but they can’t just let you be free range kids. Like in the story we just talked about God was upset with the prophet for not doing more to help his sons be righteous. So I guess the real question is what would you tell your parents to do to help you grow up to be a righteous and successful adult. I want an answer from each of you in the class.
I gave them about 2min to think about it and called on a class member.
The first answer was from a young woman. “I would tell them that when they give out a consequence to actions, make sure they follow through with it. Whether it be chores, time out, grounding, or even a reward.” This answer really surprised me. At 15 years old this child felt like she needed more structure in her life. I have been told that kids really need this kinda structure to fell like their moms and dads actually do care about them.
Next was a young man. “Instead of sitting around the house and being bored, go out and do something with us.” Which seams like an average answer. So I asked, “I remember being your age and at 14 I didn’t want to go do things with my family. So why would that be your answer? Tell me how to get a 14 or 15 year old to go out and actually have a good time with their parents. When I see other families trying this the teen seems to want to be anywhere but there.” This opened up a pretty long discussion. There was not one of them that disagreed with this answer the young man gave. The one thing they all seemed to say is that there seems to be a tension between them and their parents, even while at play. They said to not be so reactive/explosive. To just have a good time. Not worry about what time it is or how the activity is being done, and don’t try to always be the coach or the know it all. Just play like you did when you were that age. Or like you do with men or women you own age now. One explained that if they were out rough housing somewhere and dad accidentally got banged up by a silly mistake of the kid, there was heck to pay for it.
We talked awhile on this one because this is one where I struggle. My boy wants to just be with me, doing... well... nearly anything. And I have found that I am way too short fused with him. When we go riding his four-wheeler I am always trying to push him to get better. Or force him to do things he doesn’t feel ready for. I have gotten mad and yelled at him when we were just playing soccer. Or I don’t just go spend time with him when he asks. Soon enough he will be like I was and stop asking, then stop desiring at all to spend time with his dad. One of the last points that came out is the kids sometimes felt that when they are out with mom and dad that it feels like they are the duty of their parents. Not some one of mutual respect and love. When this young man said play, I think he defines the word differently then you might define it.
The next answer was from another young man. His was kinda on the same line as the last one. “I would have to say do things to prevent problems.” I think kids feel like they are always in trouble and are scared to be in the same room as mom and dad. This was a tough one to interpret what he meant. But it had to do with filling your kids life with wholesome things and not letting them have the chance to fill it with dark things that lead to problems.
The next one I was expecting. The young woman said “just talk to us.” She went on about how her friend could just sit and talk to her mom or dad and they had this warm and fuzzy relationship. “Like best friends, she can tell them anything and they don’t get all mad and stuff.” I asked her “now remember that it is a parents God given duty to be more than a friend. So how can a parent still fulfill that role and then just sit and talk to you no matter what?” This is where it got somewhat interesting.
She said “first of all let us talk”, and every single one in the class started agreeing and nodding and expanding on this point. After listening to them I can completely understand. See while I was a missionary I often complained that I would ask someone a question or answer a question they asked me, and they would immediately tune me out and start thinking of what to say next. And their response would be to either interrupt me while I was speaking or didn’t even pertain to what I said. Or they thought I was speaking in code or something and tried to find secret meaning in my words. Also with my own dad right now. I cannot have a conversation with him because he thinks he knows what I am going to say before I say it. He goes ahead and lets me speak but doesn’t hear a word I say. Im 28 years old and we still have this problem.
I shared those two things with the class and universally they said that is the exact problem they have with their parents. She went on to clarify her answer, “if you are going to talk to us let us at least get the story out before you get mad or try to fix everything. I understand its really important to you to make me a good person, and I understand you can’t be my best friend, but at least respect me enough to let me speak.” One boy jumped in and said “Its hard to talk to my mom and dad because I feel like whether its good or bad I am going to get a lecture. Kinda like they just want to get the conversation out of their way and put a fixed stamp on the file, then move on.”
I then told them when I was younger my mom asked me everyday “how was school?” I really think she wanted me to talk to her. But I came home everyday and said “fine.” and that was it. I didn’t want to talk. How do we as parents help our kids want to talk to us? You say you want that, but then when your mom or dad asks you a question I bet you answer just like I did when I was your age.
The same girl said “get more specific. I hate that question too. But if you are involved enough in my life that you can ask me about something I care about, I will talk.” Again when I was a missionary, the first thing they tried to teach us in the mtc was how to ask meaningful questions. That was HARD. It was really a battle, for a whole 6 months of my time serving as a missionary, to figure out how to ask good questions. Think about this. How do you ask your kids about their day? This was another point that the whole class agreed with and give their own examples on how a parent asking better questions would help them open up.
I find already with my 5 year old he wont talk to me when I ask him “how was your day?” I get a one word answer. And then when he wants to talk I don’t feel like it.
These kids said having a good relationship with them was more than talking or playing or punishments. It’s a combinations of all things. I remember being at this troubled age, and not feeling comfortable around my family. I felt like what ever I did I was in the way, so I got out of the way and did my own thing.
It seems to me that these kids feel somewhat the same as I did. They understand that we can’t be besties, but it is our JOB not theirs to make sure we don’t make them feel the way I did back then.
This was the end of class and a couple kids didn’t get to give their answers. But I felt surprised by the maturity of their answers. You hear these answers all the time if you just take the first line of them.
-Stick to your punishments
-Play as a family
-Fill your lives with good things
-Talk to your kids
-Be their friend.
But as parents I think we feel like some of those things just don’t work with our kids, or they just don’t want to do those things. But, now I think we are just going about it wrong. I think our kids feel a tension, the same tension and frustration we feel. And that is the source for the things that divide us. It is our calling to figure out how to force those feelings to melt away. A good relationship with our children is really what we all want. And by we, I mean us and them. Trust me even though you might think your teen doesn’t want this type of thing they do. Its for sure worth the time to try, even if you don’t feel like you are good at it.

Vernal Temple

2010-02-25T07:34:00.003-07:00

I have been busy working on a new project. I have finally gotten a product that I am pleased with, and feel comfortable selling to the public. These pictures are 16X24 inches. We had originally planned on selling them framed, but have decided there was no way to produce a quality frame for affordable prises. So we decided to sell just the prints.

this one compares the colors of the photo. The left is a sepia and the right is black and white. The one in the middle is the color of the portrait print. I call it a soft black and white.

Who pays for the sick insured?

2009-12-21T20:43:00.002-07:00

I think that is a good question to think about.
Last night, well this morning, the congress voted for a new health insurance make over bill. There are many many many problems with the bill. Most of all it doesn't do what the POTUS promises it does. He is leading us to believe that the bill will lower health care costs for all Americans, and for the government.
Tell me if cutting 500 billion from Medicare will lower costs for the elderly. Or if that will improve the quality of their care. What about the billions of dollars in tax hikes? Does that count as lowering costs? Or how about the requirement that every single person in this land purchase a insurance plan? If your boss doesn't provide a plan you have to buy it, or pay a fine. Or the fact that it is now going to be made law that no one can be rejected for having a preconditions.
Witch brings me back to my first question. Who pays for the sick that already have insurance? Well the answer is the NOT sick, or the well that are insured. Same with car insurance, the people that don't wreck pay for the ones that do. If you and I have the same provider and I brake my clavicle, your premium pays for my treatment. The more people that use up those premiums the higher the premiums have to go.
So... If everyone will have insurance, even those that have preconditions like cancer and heart problems and so on, that cost lots of money and that go to treatment often, what will happen to our premiums? I seen on the news today that a healthy person's, age 25-30, health insurance premiums will increase an average of 176%.
Add that to high taxes and the hundreds of bad things in this bill, and this thing becomes a complete joke. It needs to be killed in committee. Please help in opposing this bill. It is not helpful to any of us. President Obama actually said that he just wants a bill, and that he don't care what it looks like because anything is better than nothing. It seems that in Washington now a days the victory is in just passing a bill, even if it harms the country instead of helps it. For me the victory needs to be in passing a bill that works! This bill harms everyone, even my granola brother in law. In fact is will affect him and I probably the most in its bad ways.
"Kill the bill" to quote Howard Dean.

My latest gig.

2009-10-18T19:28:00.004-06:00

I had a friend ask me to do their family portraits. I think they are turning out okay. I don't know for sure though. Here are a couple of examples. I hope that they like them. I told them the only way that I would do it was if they didn't even attempt to try and compensate me for the work. I am not confident enough in the quality of what I do to accept money for it.

What a raggedy summer

2009-10-14T20:56:00.001-06:00

It's been a interesting summer.
We used to say our blessing from tithing was that we never had to go to the hospital. From the time Heidi and I were married we would hear couples near our age taking kids to the hospital. Or having some big medical issue them selves. We never did have one problem with us or our kids.
Well this summer has been a doozy.
I got ran over early this summer in Tooele, then four weeks later I broke a rib at work. I had a couple minor injuries with my back at work as well. Heidi had a major back problem, climaxing with it being necessary to take a ride in the ambulance to the ER. Plus we had Syeira.
This last week end I had a little oops on my dirt bike. I broke my collar bone right in half. Well today the doctor said it is in four pieces. So tomorrow morning I have to have surgery.
I don't know what we need to do to qualify for the blessing of health again but we desperately need it.

its funny how true this really is

2009-08-31T22:08:00.004-06:00

I have joked with my hot wife for awhile now about how I don't even have a corner in this house I can call mine. Not even one spot anywhere in this house that is not crowded out by her stuff or the way she wants it. She tells me I have the garage, but all my stuff is on the ground because all her seasonal decorations are in totes on the shelves.
Well... I finally got something my way. I have slowly been remodeling the bathroom upstairs and a few weeks ago I got the shower put in. I quickly claimed my spot in the shower. I have 1 bar of soap, 1 bottle of shampoo, and 1 razor. I put those three items on the top shelf closest to the shower head.

It was just last night that I was thinking to myself while showering, "wow this is the first spot that has been mine in this house." It had been weeks and my stuff was still there

Tonight however I get in the shower and something has changed. Heidi has about ten or twenty things in the shower, and my three things have been replaced.

Im not complaining or crying about it. I thought it was worth sharing to illustrate to my wife how right I am on this subject. See when I joke with her about it, she cannot understand what I am talking about.
One of these days, even if I have to build a separate house, I will have just one room that I can do as I please with.

She Likes To Just Scream at Me.

2009-08-24T20:15:00.003-06:00

This is what my little baby girl does to me when I hold her. Its every time... I don't know if she likes me or not. She just yells at me. Well actually there is no noise but still she just opens her mouth and scowls at me. Makes me laugh.

B.A.R.M. Being A Real Man.

2009-07-26T15:17:00.002-06:00

I wrote a blog titled "unintended consequences" when I first started this blog. I thought it was genius. I really figured I had spelled it all out as to leave no question to the matter. A commenter proved me wrong, in fact my blog had quite the opposite affect on her. She asked a plethora of questions about the text. Most of which I believe are answered in the essay, but here is one question I felt was left unexplained.

"What is a real man? I would like to know this. Perhaps you can enlighten me. Does a real man have his own set of moral that he passes to his children or is he the man that takes what he wants when he wants it. It sounds to me that your suggesting that men cannot be responsible for their own cruelty and missuses of their own power. I don't know though."

I read this comment the day it was left and have been thinking about it sense. Its not an easy question to answer, because most the answers are really long and not p.c. (Politically Correct) But seeing that this sight is titled B.A.R.M. I figure it is a question that need the proper attention given to it.

Here is a BIG disclaimer: I AM NOT CLAIMING TO BE A REAL MAN, OR CLAIM TO BE THE EXAMPLE OF ONE. I don't know that any one man is a real man. But I know where I fall short and am trying to improve on a regular basis. Also, if any of you reading this and find yourself offended, its probably because you are guilty of some thing you are reading. Or that your husband or someone close to you is the guilty party. So... don't cry about it... do something about it.

I have been asking my wife to give me a definition of a real man for months now and she never did. She came up with a real man likes certain parts of the female anatomy (both start with the letter "B"). And that REAL men know how to barbecue. I have those covered.

Here's the meat.

A REAL MAN IS..............

Logical
Men have the genetic advantage of being more left brain than women are. If its an advantage or not we can debate on that, but its a fact that men don't think in abstracts as much or as well as women do. Being logical is making decisions based on data, not emotion. I know too many people that I just cannot talk to because all they think or talk about is how they or others feel about a subject. Take the current debate of the congress; universal health care. Its an argument based on pure emotion. Even I would like to see all Americans given top rate health care. But the facts are its not possible to do with out damaging large amounts of the health care and private systems.

Most of the bad decisions humans make are based on feelings not facts. A real man will learn to separate the two and choose to weigh his options carefully and make the sound judgments that will lead him and his family down a secure path.

Falling under logic, I believe, is honesty. To be a man you must always be truthful to everyone, even your self. There has been a temptation throughout time to justify ones actions to explain away all guilt. When a man has a flaw, he realizes it and takes action. As I alluded to in the open of this essay, men don't get offended, they just make the necessary corrections and get on with it.

Being honest with others is self explanatory. That means in all you do; work, play, money, and if you give your word that is what will happen. All of your dealings must be truthful.

Practical
Practicality and Logic go hand in hand. How many of us know someone that is not to good with their time or their money. Or any of their resources for that matter. It is up to the men to make sure that the priorities of the family are set straight. Which includes money not being spent frivolously, and time being spent in the right portions in the right places.

Men and women have a large variety of things they can focus their time and money on. A mans list should be in this order. 1 Family, 2 Work, 3 Church, 4 Self. Some metro-sexuals my argue that how can a person take care of family, work, and church if he don't take care of himself first. This is not being honest with your self, this is rationalizing bad behavior. If you hear something of this nature it is a boy trying to sway some guilt away he might already feel for lack of action.

Stoic
Don't take this to mean that a real man is not allowed to have feelings or emotions. Its just our job to appear that we don't have any feeling or emotions. Think of it as a professional duty. This quality is where I really fall short. I am a succor for a woman that is crying. I spent a very long time with a girl friend that i didn't like because I met her when she was crying. We broke up like 14 times before it stuck, because each time I broke up with her she cried. REAL men don't cry, at least so others can see them crying, and they are not a sucker for tears. That goes back to not making decisions on emotion.

I think that this section includes gossip, and that sort of talk. We just shouldn't do it... it makes us look and sound like girls. I read a blog entry from a sight called Confessions from a Mormon Bachelor Pad, and this place is just one big puke-fest. These so called guys just rant on and on about chatty chick stuff. It is disgusting. It looks like they found the slobbering diary of a gay teen still in the closet and stole it out from under his pillow, then published it. This sort of dribble my be attractive to some of you liberated women out there, but it is just not acceptable to digress like this then call yourself anything but a childish boy. (And if somehow one of your girly little toads read this, sorry to brake it to you this way but its true. Consider the above statements.)

Handy
This is one more that my good wife thought of. She said that a man should have tools and know how to use them. She said that he need to be able to fix something. Not all men are blessed with the ability to just know how to fix things, but it is not unreasonable to ask that he at least know how to hammer a nail or fix a squeaky door. Something of that nature. In the movie Grand Torino clint eastwood said that any man worth half his life can fix most all that he needs with like a hammer vice grips and some duct tape. And really if you cannot fix something around the house, I bet your woman sees you as little less of a man. Chances are her dad could fix things and she thought that was just the best thing ever when she was little. So if you can't do it, learn how to do at least something.

Provider
Call me old fashion if you want but this is essential. Not only that, but it should be the top goal for a man. Look this is how me and my wife worked it. Before I asked her to merry me I told her that it was a deal breaker for me. I said I had a mom at home and my kids will too. I told her if it was important to her that she work then I would stay home with the kids till they went to school. But she had to make as much as I would so that we could afford to live like we wanted to. And about the school thing, I said its important that if you do get a job that when school is out and the kids come home one of us need to be there daily.

It is so clear to me that I need to do all that I can to make this happen. I will sacrifice a lot so that my kids have their mommy. I will work what ever I need to to make sure my wife can be at home. I am not going to have my children robbed of their childhood and be raised my a day care or the t.v. If we give our kids to a day care we are forfeiting the opportunity to teach them, lead them, love them, and learn from them. And by default we give that chance to the baby sitter.

It is the highest calling of a real man to be a provider for all the needs of his family. Not only money, but also the emotional needs of first his wife and then his kids. He needs to be the source of love to lead his wife and kids to happiness and the ability to stay together.

Strong
Being strong is what being a man is about. I have wrote before about the liberalization of women has caused a backlash against men and their natural desires. It is not p.c. to be a strong man any more. They have given it a name "the alpha male" and have demonized it. It is a problem that needs to be dealt with.

I don't mean physical muscular power. I mean the will to do what is right no matter what the cost. The right thing is what real men do. In the question at the top of this blog it was asked, "Does a real man have his own set of moral that he passes to his children or is he the man that takes what he wants when he wants it." So to answer this directly I would say a "real man" does not take what he wants when he wants it. Thats a silly questions, its a straw-man argument. If a man wants some thing, he finds a way to get it and he works for it and he earns it. Of course a real man would only want the things that are healthy for him and his family. Does He have his own set of morals? No he abides by God's set of morals and passes them on to their children with love and when necessary, reproof.

He would have the strength to stand up to his peers; his wife, kids, father, and yes his own mother. I listen to Dr. Laura and her radio show. The air waves are continually drowned with women that have week men that choose to make their mother happy rather than their wives. This is childish, selfish, and cowardly.

We should have the strength to be respectful and to all people. Our friends as well as our enemies. Its called manners. Although we really don't have enemies any more, the people that we don't like or that bug us should be treated just as well as our favorites. Now matter how much we want to be rude.

I work with all guys. It is rare to hear a guy where I work not refer to their wife as "the old lady" or some other derogatory term. I have to admit that this drives me absolutely nuts. My own dad rarely refers to my mom the way she deserves to be referenced. I want to hit him sometimes when I hear him talk about my mom in public. I am lucky that I went on a mission. If I wouldn't have gone, I would have never learned how good a "real man" can treat his woman, and still have the unmistakable air of strength and valuer. My mission president, President Bradshaw, treated his wife so well and it made an everlasting impression on me. I am grateful for his example. It has helped me treat my wife better than I would have other wise.

A couple random thoughts.
A real man does NOT wear "skinny pants" or those stupid canvas shoes!!!!
He can only hug his wife, daughters, grandmothers, mothers, aunts, and his sons (before the little boys hit puberty). Some times his mother-in-law on days like his wedding or times that are really extraordinary.

If you have anything to add to this section or the rest of the blog, feel free to comment.

My old brand new truck.

2009-07-22T21:31:00.000-06:00

In October of 2006 we went to Larry H Miller and got a brand new ram 2500 sport quad cab. Long story there but I wanted a mega cab and Jimmy forced me not to get one. (like i said long story) Well for ever I hated the truck until I finally lifted it and got some sweet wheels for it. Then I fell in love with the truck. Since it was the sport edition it was all one color, no chrome or shiny anything. It had white bumpers and grill, in other words, it was completely white. So I named it Cracker. Get it?

Anyway the truck came with a scary payment, so considering the recession and all I wanted to get a smaller payment. My salesman at lhm called me friday and told me the value of my truck had come way up and was worth enough for me to trade it in and brake even.

Talked it over with the family and even though all of us were in love Cracker we decided to trade it in. On one condition, that I came home with a smaller payment. Heidi stayed home and sent me out there to do the sad sad deal. She just said, if you do something stupid, you have to come home with a cheese cake from the cheese cake factory.

So what did I do? I came home with a 2009 Ram 1500.

Let me explain.... I went to LHM with a truck that had 24000 miles on in and was mint. I didn't want to come home with a junker, you know... So I was looking at all the half ton trucks they had on the lot and the only one I could feel good about coming home with had 50000 miles and was in good shape. But the problem was not only did the value of my truck go up so did all the half tons value too. They were about the same price as my trade.

Turns out this new Hemi was only 5000 more than a 2007 half ton truck with 50000 miles on it.

I drove it home and soon as Heidi rode it she liked it. And soon as she drove it she loved it. That is why it is my OLD brand new truck. Its not mine anymore. We are selling her nitro and she will just drive this. I have sellers remorse a bit because I love Cracker so much.

Anyone have a sweet name for my bright orange truck. I am stumped.

P.S. Heidi loved her cheese cake.

more rock creek

2009-06-25T20:13:00.000-06:00

Great Surprise.

2009-06-22T21:24:00.000-06:00

My hot wife thought it would be fun to go up to the still water damn today. I was a good idea. I had never been there before, and was not expecting to much. Dylan had told me that it was really cool but I was not expecting to see what I did. I was thinking it was going to be a cobble rock damn like most damns are. Well that is not at all what we found.
On the way home Dylan told us there was a cafe in the trees so we went and found it. I was GOOOOD. I recommend any one that loves the mountains and good home cooked food go do this trip soon while Rock Creek is running high. The restaurant was only about a mile from the damn so its like 8000 feet high. It was a cool day. Especially considering I called in sick today. The day took a good turn.

Deegans HERO

2009-06-14T16:35:00.000-06:00

I have a good friend, he's one of the best guys around, first class. He is Deegan's favorite friend of mine. He is a fire fighter and had the truck out at a church activity spraying kids with the big old guns. He pumped out 1000 gallons in like 4 min. That gun shot a 2" stream of water like 150 feet. Any way he called me at 7:30 pm and told me to bring Deegan down to help him shoot the water and stuff. Then we fallowed him down the to station and Deegan got a hat, badge, and a sticker to put on his four wheeler. Here are some of the cooler pictures.
(Click to enlarge pictures, and feel free to wonder around the flicker page.)

Thanks Dylan! Glad to have you as a friend.

Pictures of Linnéa

2009-06-01T22:10:00.000-06:00

Heidi had the cutest idea for a picture of our fat little baby.
Sucks that she didn't do what we wanted her to do.
When she get ready to cry sometimes she makes the most sad and sour looking face in the world. We wanted to get her with that face. Instead she is just fussy.
Here's MY little squishy girl.

For larger image, click picture then click the "all sizes" tab above the picture. Feel free to comment on any of my photos that are in my flicker photostream.

I said "we cannot not afford Obama"

2009-05-27T20:59:00.000-06:00

Cap and Trade...
There was a poll taken by a national news outlet and it found that only something like 13% of Americans understood what cap and trade is just by the mention of the name. Which means education on the subject is not a priority of the white house. The president would rather slip this through without the public understanding just how outrageously left he is before it's to late.

Cap and Trade is a plan by the government to put a limit (cap) on CO2 omissions for companies that use carbon based fuels. When they exceed this cap they are taxed. The cap on CO2 will be set at levels as high as 20% of current levels. Cutting CO2 omissions 80% is impossible for any company.

The trade part is company's can trade carbon credits among one another by what ever medium they want.

Because businesses do not pay taxes. (They just pass the cost on to the customer. If they don't they cannot afford it and go out of business.) The congressional budget office estimate the increased tax revenue at 650 billion dollars. The CBO is most always wrong by about 5-10 times. But just for arguments sake lets say that they are right. 650 billion divided by every house hold in America that uses energy is about $3100 a year. That is not money we save of get back as a stimulious; it is extra money that we pay for power, and water, and gas, and natural gas, and propane.

Like I said in an earlier blog WE CANNOT AFFORD THIS PRESIDENT!

President Obama told the congress leadership that he wanted to push this through by august. Keeping with my earlier point, get it through without the public finding out about it. He and all the dems know that this is an economy killer. Get the word out.

Im sick of this

2009-05-14T15:48:00.000-06:00

In 2007, the public debt was 36.8 percent of GDP ,^[4] with a total debt of 65.5 percent of GDP.^[5] The debt of the United States is ranked as 12th in the world.^[6]. As of May 2009 the debt was 80.1 percent of GDP based on current GDP.

Okay everyone!!! Its time for each of us as to stop and think for a minute. I know that there is some novelty about there being the first black president, but please look what he has done to this nation in his first 100 days. He has successfully bankrupt this nation. The left is going to have to raise taxes on everyone just to keep this nation moving at an even slower pace than it is now. We need to come together no mater your politics and tell our government stop spending.

In 2001 when I left for a mission, the nations total budget was 1.7 trillion dollars. The national budget grew like a weed under president bush. He never vetoed one bill that came across his desk until the final moments of his 8 years. The right wing base called him out on his spending many times and condemned him for it. But in the first 100 days of this president, he has increased the budget from Bushes 2.9 trillion to a modest 3.8-4 trillion dollars. With an expected 1.8 trillion dollar deficit. Back up to the top of the paragraph, what was the total budget just 8 years ago? Thats right; pres. Obama's deficit is larger than the whole amount spent in 2001.

In the midst of this looming down turn in our economy the white house has decided it is a good time to saddle my brand new daughter with huge amounts of dept to pay. In the midst of this recession the white house has decided that it is a good time for all the liberal (huge government very expensive) pet projects to be enacted. Health care reform, bale outs for the unions, bale outs for banks, and bale outs for wall street. To accomplish this he has raised taxes on small business and big business, aka the people that give you and me jobs, health care insurance, and pay checks.

In Pres Bushes first term he tried to fix social security. He couldn't get the dems on board with him so he failed. The argument was that Bush was just trying to scare old people, and that everything will be just fine. But just today the fed reported that THIS year social security will take in less money that it will pay out. For those of us that pay our own bills what would this mean for us if we took in less money that we owed? It would mean drastic cuts in our lifestyle, would it not? But for the the federal government it means raising taxes, printing more money (causing inflation), and borrowing it from other countries and individuals.

But borrowing money for the USA is not as easy as it once was. With interest rates at basically zero, nobody wants to lend us any money, because the return on their investment would be so small at .5% it is not worth it. Also with our national dept going over the breaking point, the nations triple-A credit rating is falling. We have already slid out of the top spot among nations who are triple-A rated. So what does this mean for you and me. Well again taxes going up, not just on the rich but for everyone. It also means the fed will start to hike up the core interest rates to make lending to the government more attractive. So for the middle class things are not looking to good.

In fact one radio news report today said that the middle class will be pressured more in the future than it will be at the bottom of this recession. Where ever the bottom may be.

Look! Americans deserve better than what we are getting. Our president is doing all he can to establish power for the federal government. He is using the heavy weight of billions of dollars to force states to go along with is policies. Saying do this or your 6 billion will not come to your state after all. He is using the powers of the government to take away the rights of individual citizens. Do you really want the government running health care. Look at how it runs everything else, medicare for example, and tell me if that is who you want saying what kind of treatment you can or cannot have. The government fails at everything it tries, except for winning wars, and we are more and more willing to hand over our freedoms to it for what ever reasons.

Please help stop all this spending. Each of us need to come together for the sake of the future of this nation. The usa is a great country but it cannot afford the policies of the left any longer, and its only been 100 days. They have got the better part of 4 years left, how scary is that?

They used to say "we cannot drill our way out of this" when energy cost were so high. Well now that we are in a recession I say "we CANNOT SPEND our way out of this!"

Syeira's Photo Shoot

2009-04-27T20:04:00.000-06:00

Tons more pictures that we took that are cute. I am just not done with any of the rest of thim

Wife=Guinea Pig?????

2009-04-11T20:36:00.000-06:00

Just one more before and after.
I just wanted to go as far as I could and still make it look somewhat real. I love my good wife for letting me just be crazy with her face. This is actually a picture that Heidi took of herself. She posted it on her blog here. She called it her thinking face. It is just a picture at the top of her post to illustrate she was having a dilemma.

I was really bored with the day this sunday, so I decided to make a scrap book page in photoshop of some of the photoshoped pictures I had done this weekend. Scrap booking is a girl think I know, but I believe here at B.A.R.M. there is room for this and still being a real man.

Click for larger images.

Statue

2009-03-10T21:15:00.000-06:00

Heidi purchased this while we were in mexico last year, but didn't want any one to know she was preggo so she never put it out. I guess chicks get those kinda hints. For the men reading; see there are four figures? well that means that you have two kids, not that the statue was just cool looking.
I took this picture and edited it tonight cuz i was bored. I liked it and thought I would share it.

New Photoshop Stuff

2009-02-27T21:46:00.000-07:00

Heidi was really really nice and let me take a picture of her to experiment with. She is also going to be ticked that I put the original up next the the doctored photo. Sorry Heidi. But considering only 5 or 6 people look at my blog no big deal right.? Any way I really enjoy photoshop, so if anyone would like me to play with one of their pictures and send it back to them e mail me the photo. The better quality the picture the better (more mega pixels). Hope yall think I did as good on this as I do. Click on the image to go to a larger better image. Also when you get to the flicker account, above the picture there will be an icon that says "all sizes". Clicky that for a clearer look. Thanks Josh

Click picture for the larger full image

Another way I know The Church of Jesus Christ is the truth

2009-02-12T21:53:00.000-07:00

I once thought that my sister was strong in the church, with her own testimony and great faith. But then she so easily fell away. So I decided that her faith was more my parents than her own. After all how could one so strong fall so far so fast.
However, this week I read a scripture, seen a tv spot, and had a thought that changed my mind again.

TV SPOT

THE SCRIPTURE

Alma 24:30 And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once ^aenlightened by the ^bSpirit of God, and have had great ^cknowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have ^dfallen away into sin and transgression, they become more ^ehardened, and thus their state becomes ^fworse than though they had never known these things.

MY THOUGHT

My sister is gay. Not just gay, she is not content to live a gay life and let others live a traditional life. She decided to swing that way, and now is involved in activism of all types. She goes to political rallies, parades, staffs campus booths, and who knows what else.

The depth and greatness of her fall, coupled with the above scripture, is just another small testiment to me that the Church that I am a member is true.

I know there are several gay women in my extended family, all of witch are happy being themselves. None of them see the need to try and force their lifestyle on us all.

what we do when we have nothing to do

2009-01-24T21:09:00.000-07:00

After watching like 4 movies today, deegan and I decided to make a little movie. We also went to the cabin and hunted coyotes and heidi took deegan sledding down a little hill at the cabin. But here is the movie.

Just Today

2009-01-17T18:13:00.000-07:00

Today was a good day. Started off to be the first time I slept in for a long time. Was going to get up and just remodel the upstairs bathroom. But instead I asked Deegan if he wanted to go snowmobiling. He said yes. So here are a few pictures.
Look how small our little guy is. He is so smart that sometimes I really do forget that he is just a little guy.

My Good wife got me the sweetest birthday gift ever. It is a little program that allows me to produce pictures other wise impossible to do. Like this one. I took it today. On our way home from sledding wife noticed this patch of sunflowers... So at sunset I went back to take a few shots. I know that it looks fake. I did that on purpose. I think it looks more like a painting, and I like it. But it is for reals just a photo. Click on it to see a full and larger image of it.

my 3.5 year old gymnast

2009-01-06T20:45:00.000-07:00

I know this is crappy cell phone video but its cool anyway. I came home from work today and walked down stairs to deegan just running around in circles. Then out of the corner of my eye I catch him jumping of the couch with a full twist and landing on the luv sac.

The worst thing that could happen

2008-12-12T19:44:00.000-07:00

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

2008-12-01T17:22:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-11-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-11-14T21:09:00.000-07:00

It just occurred to me

2008-11-14T18:51:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-11-03T19:36:00.000-07:00

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.

2008-10-31T21:26:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-10-29T20:51:00.000-06:00

Rush

To my blog yesterday.

2008-10-22T18:22:00.000-06:00

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?

2008-10-21T18:14:00.000-06:00

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!

2008-10-15T21:05:00.000-06:00

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...

2008-10-13T18:39:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-09-29T17:38:00.001-06:00

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?

2008-09-23T21:41:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-09-17T08:39:00.000-06:00

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

to every american.

2008-09-14T19:03:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-09-07T18:05:00.000-06:00

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

2008-09-03T20:46:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-09-02T17:45:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-09-01T22:23:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-08-31T08:39:00.000-06:00

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

2008-08-25T08:39:00.000-06:00

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.

2008-08-18T19:16:00.000-06:00

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

2008-08-17T08:39:00.000-06:00

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

2008-08-16T19:58:00.000-06:00

Just got bored so I made this vid.

2008-08-10T10:28:00.000-06:00

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

2008-08-03T08:43:00.000-06:00

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.

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Here's the first post.

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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.