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No kidding...or ruined her private jet.

I subscribe to a channel on You Tube called Rhett and Link (I think I spelled it right). Anyway, they pretty much do all original stuff, and I thought this tribute to the 1980's was hilarious. BTW, I sent chapter two of my new story off to Steph, and as soon as she can, she's gonna get it posted. She's not feeling well so there's been a slight posting delay...no big deal. BTW, I don't have any beta readers for this story (except for Talonrider, my editor, who reads the chapters as he works on them(, so if anyone is interested, there's an open slot. OK, here's the video........

I was debating a Republican friend of mine last night on what the party needs to do to get back on track. I told him that I feel like as long as they continue to talk about gay marriage, Obama's birth certificate and the "real America" (ie; small town America) that they should just make themselves comfortable as the minority party in Washington. Apparently, he's a birther, one of those people who refuses to accept that President Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States. I asked him kindly if he'd ever heard of factcheck.org, and he took a funny right turn in the middle of our conversation. You see, according to him, I'm not following the "Principles of the 912 project." I almost started laughing but was able to contain myself long enough to ask him what the hell that had to do with anything. Well, supposedly, the "912 project" is something that Glen Beck invented. I'm sure you all know who glen beck is. He's the pussy on Fox that cries over the dumbest ass things, and got called out on the view for lying (and for crying). So my best guess is that they'll never get their shit together and continue to wander out into the political wilderness. They'll look and sound just as crazy as the democrats did for eight years when they refused to let the 2000 election drop and move on. They'll continue to talk about the real America and call people who don't agree with their political viewpoints Un-American because that's such an effective way to draw people under their political tent. They'll pin all of their election hopes on the back of Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity and Glen Beck because of their ratings share on the radio and television, but what they won't take into consideration is that those guys only need a 5 or 6 point ratings share to be considered popular. They need at least a 51 point share of the populous to win elections. They'll keep talking about Ronald Reagan like he was the second coming of Jesus because these days, that's all they have to hold onto. There is literally NOBODY in the Republican party that can take them to victory. They'll talk about the great Sarah Palin and how great she'd do against Obama in an election, but they'll only be fooling themselves. I'm going to venture a guess and say that Palin has never read a book about the Middle East, World Wars one or two, Vietnam, Korea, Communism, Eisenhower or even an Atlas of the world. If she had, she would have known that Africa was a continent and not its own country. But when I tried to convey these points to my poor republican friend, all I got was a lecture about liberal bias in the media and lies about Sarah Palin. I asked him to cite one lie the media told about her, and he couldn't. I really hate the democrats, and call them out every chance I can. I think it's a bad idea for one party to be in control of all of the legislative bodies in Washington. We saw what happened when the republicans held both houses of congress and the White House. We're watching history repeat itself at this very moment. Unfortunately, thanks to a group of mind numb ditto heads and birthers, it's probably going to be a long trip back for the republican party.

Somewhere deep down, I know it's wrong to point and laugh. But damn.....

I had a nice, long blog entry written and ready to roll. Then I hit the post button, and instantly, I was disconnected from the internet and my entry was gone.... oh well. Anyway, here's a quick summary. Sent the first chapter of my new story off to Steph. Wrote a new short story. Not allowed to get a bike anymore because two people were killed this weekend in the area on bikes and it was on the news. My fiance said that I could get one, but that I could also move into the guest room or onto the couch if I did. We settled on an Audi 5 but I want to get a 2010 model, so we're holding off for a minute. We still might get an Infinity instead, or, if I get my way, an Audi for her and an Infinity for me Probably not though So yeah, that's the condensed version of everything I had before my connection to the internet went away

Well, I thought about a 2007 or 2008, but that's up to her. We're planning to buy a house in the coming months, so it's definitely something we need to look at. She has her heart set on a new car, though, so if worse comes to worse, I hate to say, I may have to wait on the bike. I'm gonna take my grandpa with me when we go. He used to be a part owner of a used car dealership, and he's pretty good at negotiating with dealers. He got me a hell of a deal on the Honda, and I got my Sentra a lot cheaper than the lot I got it at wanted for it because he was there.

So my fiance and I made our first compromise the other day. I've been wanting to buy a street bike, and she's been wanting a new car. Technically, neither one of us needs either, but we both have our minds made up. So I made a deal with her..... If she lets me go to the Kawasaki dealer, I'll get her the car she wants. We both win. Granted, my bike's going to be a lot cheaper than her car, but I understand that a new car is a much more practical purchase than a motorcycle. I should mention that she wants an Audi, and to be quite honest, I think they're f**king sick, but they're pretty expensive. Not that expensive, but still. We have the money, but it's going to make me nauseous to part with that much. Still, Audi's are safe and I want her driving something safe. The Civic's getting older, and while she was learning to drive a stick she pretty much slayed the clutch and ground all the gears into fine powder (I'm exaggerating there, but only a little bit). So it's definitely time. In other news, I'm still working on the sequel. I also have a few other ideas in the works, and they should all be coming down the pike shortly. Anyway, I also wanted to mention the fact that Barbara Boxer is the dumbest racist in the history of the US Senate. Not the biggest racist (that still applies to Robert Byrd, the former Klansman), but the dumbest racist. She's such a dumb racist that she doesn't even know how bad of a racist she is. Here's proof.....

So I read a story about the Stella Doro factory closing in the Bronx, and I started thinking about a cookie I used to eat at my grandparents' house when I was probably no older than about five or six. They were Stella Doro cookies, but they were topped with Sesame Seeds. They were perfect for dunking in hot chocolate and would be great to dunk in my morning cup of coffee...I say would be because I found out Stella Doro stopped making them a few years ago. Now aside from the fact that I won't get to experience the tastiness of those wonderful cookies ever again, my life isn't really that impacted. Except that for some reason, I feel a sense of loss over it mainly due to the fact that I won't have the opportunity to sit down at the table someday with my daughter and share the memory with her of dunking a Stella Doro Sesame Seed cookie in our hot coco. Silly? yes. Meaningless? To most, I'm sure, but not to me. The good news is, though, that there are plenty of other brands of cookie out there, but I somehow doubt that they'll have the timeless mystique that Stella Doro cookies have. The taste, the texture and even the packaging takes me back to another time. It just makes me sad that I won't have that one special facet of my childhood to pass along to my daughter when she gets old enough to appreciate its significance.

Here's the first section of the first chapter of the story I've been working on.......in Greek. "Μπαμπά, πρέπει να ακούσετε αυτό;" griped Ι, για την επίτευξη του Ipod πριν έκανε ένα δυνατό κτύπημα στο χέρι μου. Άφησα ένα δυνατό αναστεναγμό και διασχίζεται χέρια μου, με τον τρόπο με τον ερεθισμένο μου είχε περάσει ολόκληρη τη μέρα. "Φίλιππος, που είναι δύστροπος μαζί μου δεν πρόκειται να πάρετε το αυτοκίνητό σας έξω από το μαγαζί κάθε νωρίτερα," ο μπαμπάς μου μου διδάξει. "Το έχω ήδη πει, μπορείτε να οδηγείτε το Pontiac σε αυτό το χρονικό διάστημα." "Αυτό είναι χάλια," I Muttered, που οδήγησε τον πατέρα μου να μου δώσει μια μεγάλη, όπως μας επισήμανε κοιτάζω καθίσει στο stoplight, περιμένει να κάνει μια αριστερή στροφή που θα μας πάρει σπίτι. Το ίδιο stoplight όπου νωρίτερα μέσα στην ημέρα, μου έλεγχο κινητήρα φως ήρθε και άρχισε να αναβοσβήνει. Όταν προσπάθησε να φύγει, το αυτοκίνητο μετακινηθεί, αλλά μόνο ελάχιστα. Θα φτάσει σε ταχύτητα της τάξης των είκοσι μίλια την ώρα, όταν ήξερα ότι ήταν κάτι σοβαρό, έτσι τράβηξα πάνω και κάλεσε τον πατέρα μου. Τέσσερις ώρες αργότερα, ήταν το τράβηγμα έξω από το Chevy αντιπροσωπείας ΧΩΡΙΣ μου Μαλιμπού. Το Τριπλό Α τύπος είπε ότι ακούγεται σαν Έχασα κάπου στη συμπίεση μου αυτοκίνητα, και ήθελα να του πω "δεν Sherlock σκατά." Αντί στάθηκα από gritted και τα δόντια μου που είδα τον τραβήξτε το αυτοκίνητό μου πάνω στο κρεβάτι του γερανό . Ο μπαμπάς μου είπε που να οδηγεί στην αντιπροσωπεία, και ακολούθησε μαζί. Θα ήθελα να πω ότι έχοντας το αμάξι μου είχε καταρρεύσει το χαμηλότερο σημείο της ημέρας μου, αλλά θα ήθελα να βρίσκεται. Προηγούμενα κατά τη διάρκεια της ημέρας, ανακάλυψα ότι το πλυντήριο αυτοκινήτων δούλευα σε αυτό, για τουλάχιστον το ήμισυ του detailers εκτός, και από τότε που ήταν η τελευταία αυτού, θα ήθελα να είναι το πρώτο πιθανό ένας από την πόρτα. Ι εμφανίστηκε για εργασία στις 8:30 απότομη, που ήταν όταν είχε προγραμματιστεί να είναι εκεί, μόνο για να πει ότι μπορώ να δουλέψω δύο ώρες, τότε θα έπρεπε να προβλέπονται ρολόι. Από τη δική μου σπίτι, θα προσπαθούσε να αφαιρέσει ένα σχέδιο στο μυαλό μου για να βρει νέες θέσεις εργασίας, όταν το αυτοκίνητό μου, που ανοίγει σε μένα, και ήξερα ότι δεν ήταν μόνο δική μου μέρα.

I guess the first thing I should do is get the dust rag out and wipe the spiderwebs off of my blog. I can't believe it's been so long since I've logged on to GA. Actually, this is the first time in a long time I've been able to sit down and catch my breath in a long time. I'm sure that everyone knows by know, but for those that might not know, I became a dad in April. My head's still spinning a little bit, but the newness of it is pretty much gone now, if that makes any sense. My daughter already knows how to get what she wants, which is pretty much to be held at all times during the day and night, for no one to talk while she's nursing, and to never, EVER, be put in her carrier. I don't know what I'd do if it weren't for my fianc

Yeah, I would say that multiple abortions are excessive. I was being extra lulzy when I made that statement, mainly to drive the point home that I'm for abortion. BTW, thank you for the nice comments about my blog. I enjoy writing in it, but I know I've been neglecting it as of late.

There's no sense in disrupting the thread with my opinions. I've found that I have more range to express my opinions when I do so on my blog rather than in the forums, where the "PC Police" seem to have a stranglehold on moral authority.

I agree with what you're saying James, but on this forum, the unfortunate fact is that the conversation has to be dumbed down for the Obama-bots because it's all about his celebrity and not his policy. We'll see how much damage this guy can do for the next four years, and hopefully by then, the idiotic Republicans will actually have a platform and a message that doesn't appeal to the lowest common denominator in our nation.

I had to chuckle when I read the thread about public funding for abortions in the Soapbox. I

Mike, I wasn't trying to single you out or anything, but I have to say that I definitely disagree that we should "take what we can get." Is it fair for people who live in California who were planning to be married when gay marriage was legal to have to wait around and take what they can get? This is about separate but equal, a notion that has been demonized in the last 60 years. How can we stand by and accept that for ourselves, or for future generations of lgbt couples that face the same oppression we do?

Tim, A lot of people oppose Don't Ask Don't Tell. People like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Rielly, Fred Phelps and his entire family, and others. Don't Ask Don't Tell and Gay Marriage are two totally different issues. Why should we have to wait 20-30 years? Or even one year? How is that even remotely acceptable? If you'd like to know where I get my info from, well, in this instance, I got it straight from the horse's mouth.

Real quick because I have to run, what I got out of that interview is that Obama let the Bishop deliver an invocation for an event that meant practically nothing, that he used to support gay marriage, and once he entered the inner circle of the DemoKKKrat party, he turned homophobic. I respect the good Bishop's right to his opinion, as well as everyone else on this forum, but there isn't a single circumstance that I can imagine someone being opposed to gay marriage unless they're homophobic. Their very opposition to same sex marriage would have to be rooted in homophobia.

Unfortunately, he was asked during a primary debate if he supported same sex marriage, and he said no, that marriage is between a man and a woman. I'm pretty sure that the reason he opposes a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is because he understands that the constitution's purpose is to limit the power of the federal government over the people, not to restrict people's rights.

Actually, the reason he doesn't support same sex marriage is because he's a homophobe. Also, please examine your second sentence. He has his morals and doesn't believe two guys should be allowed to get married? Morals have nothing to do with gay marriage, unless someone believes that it's morally wrong to be gay. That's not fine. It's wrong.

So, denying an entire segment of the population a right that he himself enjoys is about being diplomatic and pragmatic? I don't think I get where you're coming from.

Okay, let's assume that I'm wrong. Please answer one question for me then..... If Obama really isn't a homophobe, why does he oppose gay marriage?

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Ok, so I promised the last chapter of If By Chance in my last blog entry, but I stretched it out for at least one more chapter...sorry. Also, I just wanted to say something in general to everyone salivating over Barack Obama's promise to do away with Don't Ask Don't Tell because it'll prove those of us who say he'll disappoint the gay community wrong; That doesn't change anything. He opposes gay marriage. That's enough for me. I'll always oppose him as long as he opposes equal rights for every American. So to make a long story short, he already HAS disappointed the gay community. His base passed prop 8 out in California and prop 2 in Florida. What more proof do you need? Oh yeah, and here's a random 80's video for no particular reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO5qwNG4U18

Once again, Ron Paul rises above the fray to provide a reasoned and well thought out argument against US involvement in the middle east. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z6vMAoFwf4 BTW, for anyone who's wondering, the last chapter of If By Chance should be finished sometime this weekend. I know I've been neglectful and I'm sorry, but life has been kicking me in the balls over and over again and it's been hard to catch my breath.