I have a new favorite commercial…ask your kids, they know who the couple is

I love Denise Richards show on E!

So I’m gay right?

Ok at least that is what I use to call them when my redneck girlfriend from Mesquite, TX introduced them to me…but actually they are pretty smart now that I am a dad.

1. Take one bag of red seedless grapes (or green but I have found the red taste much better) and put them in the freezer
2. Wait 24 hours.
3. Serve a healthy frozen, mini popsicle like treat to your kids!

Here I go again! I have a new musical favorite. His name is Amos Lee and at this point I don’t know much about him but I met a girl on the plane ride back from L.A. last week and we listened to her IPOD and one of the singers was this guy. Well I quickly went out and bought his last two CD’s. He is REALLY good! Totally my style, acoustic, folky, bluesy…BUT with that type of artist also usually comes the liberal left!

Ok I will get to the point. I like the guys music and will surely go see in in St Pete this August at the state theatre, but someone has to set this guy straight…YEP, that’s me.

The song is called “Freedom” and just so you have an idea…here are the lyrics:

“Don’t wanna be a martyr in this war
Don’t wanna hear the same excuses anymore
That every thing’s a threat
And it’s only gonna get worse if we let it

Don’t wanna blame the rich for what they got
Or point a finger at the poor for what they have not
Though the politician and the priest
Live in the belly of the beast because we fed it

Freedom is seldom found
By beating someone to the ground
Telling them how everything is gonna be now, yeah”

WOW! What a bunch of crap! Let’s break it apart and talk about it:

“Don’t wanna be a martyr in this war
Don’t wanna hear the same excuses anymore
That every thing’s a threat
And it’s only gonna get worse if we let it”

EXACTLY, don’t offer any solution to the problem, just write a song complaining about it. Lazy American at work!

“Don’t wanna blame the rich for what they got
Or point a finger at the poor for what they have not
Though the politician and the priest
Live in the belly of the beast because we fed it”

What? Why would you not make amends to get yourself out of the belly of that beast that YOU fed. YOU supported. YOU gave him all he needed to eat and more…and he still ate you…nah why try to figure a way out of the belly, we have our guitar, let’s write a song and bitch about it!

“Freedom is seldom found
By beating someone to the ground
Telling them how everything is gonna be now, yeah”

American Revolutionary War 1775-1783

6,188 dead

Indian Wars 1783-1890

1,000 (approx.) dead

The War of 1812 1812-1815

4,505 dead

U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848

13,283 dead

U.S. Civil War 1861-1865

Union: 275,175 dead

Confederate: 137,000+ dead

Spanish-American War 1898

2,456 dead

Philippine-American War 1899-1901

3,216 dead

World War I 1917-1918

116,708 dead

World War II 1941-1945

407,316Korean War 1950-1953

54,246 dead

Vietnam War 1964-1975

58,168 dead

Gulf War 1991

293 dead

Operation Enduring Freedom: Afghanistan/Pakistan October 7, 2001– Continuing

1,096 dead

Operation Enduring Freedom: Philippines Oct. 7, 2001-Continuing

11 dead

Third Persian Gulf War “Operation Iraqi Freedom” March 19, 2003-Continuing

4,000 dead

Haiti Intervention March 1, 2004-Continuing

1 dead

Before every single one of these wars, one side said to the other, “Here is how everything is gonna be now”…and after the victor “captured” the other…after they “beat them to the ground”, their freedom was found.

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I am actually writing this on Saturday cuz I have some extra time on my hands between laying down and eating Fritos. I just text Payton’s mom and we mentioned that we have known each other now for 15 years. Wow…thats sounds like something someone would say that’s like 30…err 38! So here, I have an idea (can you believe that!). I started thinking about all I have been through in the past 15 years (not just with Rachel) and have decided to post 15 things that I never ever imagined I would say, hear, think or do…NEVER! Just things that I honestly NEVER thought could ever become a reality(if even how small, large, insignificant or even life changing). They are in no particular year or even importance order…but they ARE all true.

The first one I will tell you happened last month and it is first only because my 7 year old son was the first thing I thought of when doing this!

1. “Payton, how do you manage to be sitting on the toilet yelling my name and there is still a pile of CRAP on the floor…and Payton, that crap is not even by the toilet, it’s over here by the sink.”
2. The day I saw pictures of the girl I loved and recently broke up with, kissing her new girlfriend.
3. I never thought of Pornography as an addiction until I myself could not tell myself to not look at it. Keep your kids away because it is worse a temptation then I have ever experienced with any drug. (Happy to let you know that I kicked it some time ago!).
4. Being lazy and not filing my taxes one year turned into 2, and into 3 and all of a sudden…finally after 8 years, the IRS sent me a letter letting me know that they would be taking 50% of all of my checks for many years.
5. Thinking about what kind of legacy I am leaving for my son.
6. Paying every month for what I use to consider a total waste of money…a half a mill of life insurance.
7. Seeing lesbians and homosexuals as God’s mixed up kids and not the destructive (and frankly very unChristian-like) way I use to think (please dont get me wrong…it’s still wrong, but I am so sorry for a lot of things I thought and even said to so many people in my past). (I have a really bad headache right now…what irony would it be if I had a brain aneurysm and this was my last post!)
8. I wonder more often lately how I will die. I see so much crap on TV, particularly this show called First 48 on A&E and see people dying that have so much life to live. Yes many of then are in places or predicaments they should not be in but so many are actually not and I think, that could easily be me tonight.
9. I want more children so badly.
10. Sleep with my brothers wife and yet be blessed that he forgave me and ever talked to me again.
11. Ready to retire in Florida with all the other blue haired people and no desire to ever live anywhere ever again. I love Florida.
12. As a rebel I always really kind of thought of a tattoo, but after the first I already planned for my second, third etc. As a salesman I knew I could never have any visible so to get my wrists tattooed was a big deal this past year.
13. I have always THOUGHT sleeves would be cool but never actually thought of beginning them…and at 38!
14. Be a guy that leads someone to Christ!
15. When I realized that my wife truly truly loved me and I did not love her…I never thought I would be paid back on the other end of that feeling in an “engaged” relationship.
16. Ok one more for next year…and I think this might be one of the biggest. I have had to begin to explain reproduction to my 7 year old…and to think, to be super honest with myself and think that no matter how super strict I may be, he could actually experience it before he is 10 (yes that is disgusting but to me it less disgusting and makes me more pissed off that we allow our kids nowadays to be in those positions by simply a decline in keeping Christ as well as morals as one of the most important things we instill in them). Thank you lazy ass, free thinking, ultra liberal supporting, fools who just don’t understand that life is not free! The reality is that it will only get worse (read Revelations) before it gets any better…but how bad will it get? Click here if like me you don’t want to find that out.

Can it get any better? Relaxing in just my boxers, in a cool AC filled room, with my new tower fan blowing on me, on my king size bed with fresh sheets that someone else actually put on my bed after she cleaned my house. Saturday morning after I actually went out last night and had a great time with some new friends fishing until 2am on the Sunshine Skyway fishing pier. Watching one of my favorite shows, Scrubs and an ad comes on for Harold And Kumar thats showing tonight and I bust out laughing aloud by myself…well yes, it got better because after episode #610 was the absolute best episode of Scrubs I have ever seen, #611, My Night to Remember. SO, I ask you, could it get any better?

Yes, I miss my baby boy, I love you Payton and can’t wait until you get home.

Theres all kinds of resources out there for single moms isnt there? What about single dads? Well did you know there is a myspace style site specifically for Dads! Yes, it’s really gaining popularity over the past year so go check it out and sign up…it’s free (oh and even cool moms can join).

this was the weirdest post ever…i swear I deleted it 37 times just today!  Well I finally got the page back in order by leaving this post but deleting the Moulin Rouge video…that thing was possessed!

This post will be short. Ironically it is titled belief, like in the fact that you are in disbelief that I wrote a blog two days in a row. I think my problem with consistent blogging is that I love to write but I usually will not just type something that I do not have to revise 2-3 times…therefore if I write a few paragraphs, that could take 4 hours and I just don’t have the time. So I am going to try to write more…but maybe smaller less significant pieces. Now about the title.

If you go over to my myspace page I currently have a song playing by John Mayer called “Belief”. I really like the song and probably listened to it yesterday for 20 times, but after todays message at church I actually listened to the words:

” Everyone believes
In how they think it ought to be
Everyone believes
And they’re not going easily

Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword
Like punching under water
You never can hit who you’re trying for”

I originally thought that was a slap against Christianity or even religion in general, but after picking the song apart further I think he is making a political statement against the Bush administration (the only OTHER BS argument Hollywood can throw at us). Don’t get me wrong…I’m not so far right that I don’t agree with him but I have a problem with how todays youth will interpret the song. Luckily 98% of them will never even know the meaning behind the song, but I think if you take the song at surface level (which most of the still lazy American 2% will) it encourages us not to ‘believe’.

I can’t speak for John Mayer or even the writer if it was not he, but I would say listen to the song, enjoy it, accept that what he says IS true, but don’t stop there…which is actually what the song should be telling you to do.

YES, believe…but question your belief! I believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and savior, but not because I’m a preachers kid. Because plenty of times I have stood up to a pastor or an evangelical and questioned what they were telling me. Just because it is their belief does not meant it is true, right? But what I found is that they were right. So in my own findings through their help, it strengthened my belief.
Don’t just accept what people tell you, don’t just believe it, be empowered to challenge something you might not support. But in the same breath, be prepared to be humbled and accept what someone with more experience has to offer you. Even Jesus wanted you to be challenged, to not stay in the middle and just accept things.

In Revelations 3:16 Jesus said of the person who just rides the fence, “So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth”