Let's start the ball rolling for the 2nd Bush term. Being an Optimist and a realist I think my predictions are odds on favorites. #1 Social Security Change - Fundamental change will occur with personal investment accounts. This will be the beginning of the end to the longest running ponzy scheme in world history. It has been talked to death for years and I think president Bush will seize the moment and make it happen. #2 Tax reform - I'm less optimistic about this because, I think most...

My Son Travis will be getting married in 4 days. Mina his bride is a wonderful young woman. She is Pursian and simply beautiful. They love each other and feel the need to be married. The minor details that complicate all this are many. The wedding date was pushed forward because Travis is property of the 82nd Airborne. US Army. While he has not seen much combat he has lost friends. His original mission on the first part of the invasion was to drop in to the Bagdad international airport. Fortu...

Sorry I have been away - I'm know I'm too new to this realm to be missed by anyone. Kitchen remodels, weddings and funerals and of course that four letter word - WORK- has kept me away. I hope to get back into the swing of things soon - More to follow.

To me it is important that Dubya wins again. He understands that it is my money that is paying the taxes for this country. He does not beleive in punishing success by over taxation. He believes there is potential for great harm to come to us from terrorists. John Kerry wants to take more of my money. He believes in socialized medicine - which is failing in all the countries and sucking the economic life out of them. Worst of all Kerry wants to be like the french - treating the terrorist t...

Weapons of mass destruction anyone? Saran gas in artillery shells. Missiles belonging to Iraq that exceed the legal limit of the United Nations. Another story confirming that nuclear material was being sought by Saddam in Niger. How come these events barely made the radar screen in the mainstream media? On page 18 if were lucky. It's the same reason that the media went nuts when we did not protect the museum in Iraq. Oh - but it turned out nothing really was stolen it was just hidden away ...

I watch the world go by. Doing my best to participate in it. Participating is like trying to cross a busy street without a stop light to protect you and everyone is speeding. If you zig instead of zag you end up in the gutter swallowed up by your stupidity. Yelling at people that pass you by. Screaming at strangers that it is their fault that you failed. Your mother's fault because she did not breast feed you. Your father's fault because he was a drunk and now your a drunk. Every time I see a...

Angry Little Boys I remember being a young boy and being mischievous and a trouble maker. I received many spankings and loud talking too by my parents. Painful, you bet. Stressful, absolutely. Funny how I don't remember my Sisters receiving nearly the same physical attitude adjustments as I did. I thought it was unfair. Of course I was stupid and did not know better. I did not know that young boys respond too and learn discipline through physical domination.  I can hear alarm bells going of...

Winning Make no mistake, America will win the day against the terrorists. It may take five years or ten years. How will we know it? There will be many ways to measure our success. Ultimately victory will come when the number of terrorists in the world becomes insignificant. This will only happen when those who are thinking about terrorism as a career choice - choose not to. And that will happen when many things take place over time. 1. The Middle East is exposed to the western people i...

Opening salvo I'm in my forty fifth year on this earth. After graduating high school I joined the navy for four years during Jimmy Carters miserable presidency. During my enlistment I traveled around the world twice and visited over twenty countries. Near the end of my enlistment I got married to Michele. After that I went to school to be a commercial diver. I was hired by a company out of school and spent eighteen month in the Arabian Sea (Persian Gulf) working on the oil rigs pipelines on ...