Sad Times

I know many of you feel as I do and hopefully I’m reiterating what’s truly a sad time in our country. The basis for this sadness is simply lack of trust, truth and honesty

Oath of Office

Dear Representatives and Senators, SUBJECT: Oath of Office Each and every Senator/Congressman/President took:
" I, ________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith

Times you want to be wrong

As we watch the news, unfolding events and overall actions in the new administration of Obama, our U. S. House of Representatives and Senate, it now appears many of us weren’t wrong about our concerns with what the next 4 years will do to further worsen our country. Our economy is in shambles

Love, Life and Expectation

This I wrote in a sorta book I call "Hi". In writing my thoughts, feelings about our son we lost, my wife's ordeal and reflecting on myself during these years now passed I thought it might help others

Some sayings of mine my friends say I need to share

The true essence of life is how those you love remember you!

If you live life in the fast lane, don’t look back!

God blessed everyone with a gift, what you gain is in how you give it!

If God hadn’t intended man to fish he wouldn’t have made earth 2/3rds water.

If a plane has to have the right attitude to achieve lift, don’t people?

Experience is when ya get what ya weren’t after!

Being naked must mean your honestly open minded!

Be surprised how many men feel love and lust are just a matter of inches!

I have never yet met a mirror I liked!

Chinese tell us we are like the animal of our birth sign, no wonder people tell me Whoa when I’m in gittyup!

When a true friend kicks you in the behind it’s to give you a lift!

You know your skinny when you have to move around in the shower to get wet!

Women know men better than men know women? Oh no they don‘t, we wouldn’t give birth to more than one child!

Pain must be a condition of mind over matter, if we don’t mind it don’t matter!

Difference between a Politician and a Con Artist is a prison term!

Why don’t they ever call it a Divorce Ceremony?

How come we see some of the fattest people in line for food stamps?

I never drink anything that says Diet, the first 3 letters tells ya all ya need to know!

It’s because of those that tell ya to walk a mile in my shoes, I wear boots!

Lots of folks wonder what makes a cowhand tick, Cowhands just wanna get rid of’em!

Men like golf cause they can play with their balls and not get funny looks!

Texans don’t have an accent, we have a drawl!

A poem I wrote for my Kids

DADly Dumb
My greatest joy in this world has to be you, my boys and girls
To know in my own way, the love I found on your birth days
In my heart to forever feel, a more truer love than you fulfill
A Grand’er Father, this I be, through your Mothers love I see
Why every precious moment in someway touches me each day
So special in your own way, joy and tears, your wonder years
Trying my best to help you grow, not always in what I know
For what you feel deep inside is most important in your stride
each step on life’s highway to lift and guide you along the way
I often pray you find amusing why I can be so darn confusing
And just as often why I say, “you kids are raising me every day”
In your heart be understanding of the times I’m so demanding
Emotions I don’t show yet some how, some way you will know
I was not always there at times, this you know in your mind
most important in your heart is how you feel what I support
Times of crisis when I show the love I have to give so you know
a perfect father cannot be said, but the Father I am is your DAD!

Kids are Kards

I got this on an email once and thought I'd share it for those that hadn't seen it. The reality is it's all TRUE because KIDS not only say the darndest thangs they make more SENSE!


KIDS are KARDS
　
Your so old your BABY BOTTLE is COLD!!
I get a RASH over YOU
Is that my DIAPER!!
WET & WILD
*OOooPPssSSS*
Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
How do we KNOW?
Mom & Dad said “Can’t” is not a word
they sure use it a LOT!!
Mom says Don’t get in any DRAWERS
DIAPER WHO!!
I didn’t take your “BLANKIE”
Charlie Brown
What do PETER & BrrrRR Rabbit have in common?
*I don’t KNooOOOWW*
We say AGE in half FINGAHS!!
MOM bought YOU this present
Don’t blame ME!!
　
KIDS for PRESIDENT
“MIND YOU” could be “SAVE US”
Why do People RUN for OFFICE?
They must think they can’t keep up with US!!
　
How did we get so SMART with such
DUMB PARENTS!!
Many more years and you’ll have to count with
Both HANDS!!
I LUV DIRT!!
You can have my Baby Sitter!!
I outgrew HER
I wanted to get you an Air Conditioned Baby Carriage
When your HOT your HOT!!
I wanted to get you a Puppy
your Dad wouldn’t take HUNTING!!
One more Doll House and you can tell your Parents
“MOVE IT”
Why don’t Teachers ever say
“TIME IN”
RAP in my house means my knuckles are SORE!!
ONLY TIME OUR PARENTS AGREE is when
WE’RE GUILTY!!
Now we know why Dad cooks
MOM burned my BABY FOOD!!
I’d be BLONDE if I had HAIR!!
MY GRANDPARENTS say I’M WONDERFUL!!
*MOM, DAD HELLooOOOO*
I got my Parents some’n really GREAT!!
**ME**
MY GRANDDAD and I LOOK ALIKE!!
**NO TEEF**
I know it’s your Birthday
Thought your Parents needed
A Softer PADDLE!!
Happy BIRTHDAY!!
*READER RABBIT*
(without Parental Control)
WE MAY LOOK LIKE OUR PARENTS
JUST DON’T ACT LIKE’EM!!
We just LUV a WET DIAPER
Our way of say’n “PISS OFF”!!
Who said a Round Peg can’t fit in a Square Hole
**I’m HERE aren’t I!!*
BABY TALK is NOT a FAILURE to COMMUNICATE!!

OK is this HUMOR or just HUMOR ME?

Well I am Texan and when I wrote this I'm not sure I was humor'n myself or just say'n YES Ma'am!

Bossy Women make Good Husbands
And verse visa
We all know what sometimes starts as a joke can make cents outta dollars.
Now what’s in this book is some of whatcha might call EXperience. Yep with a big ole EX too! My definition is “when ya git what ya weren’t after“ chalk that one up to EXperience, it’s definitely that too. Now this collaboration in cohabitation might not be for all parties unconcern’d but a few with enuff concern so we can get on with whatever, whenever and our whomever without any common MISSconceptions. Short of being some kind of magician this can be some trick too! Today in our so called society of social bliss, we have more folks, ways, means and information about relationships than in the history of mankind or I like to say WOmankind! Our dipsy’s can have more doodles than bugs in our rug burns. No longer are the seeds of relational bliss planted in just I do’s we have some major I don’ts, wont’s, ain’ts and can’ts.
I’m certainly not going to say I will ever totally understand women. Any man thinks he does has to be deaf, dumb, blind or about as real as a Stephen Speilberg movie. What we do is adapt, accept or at best grin and bare it. The baring it is the easy part if all we had to do was stay naked but that just ain’t happening. Somewhere tween those moments of desire, lust, love, fun, frolic and fondle’n lies the real nature of women. They don’t just want sex they want sensitivity, softness, caring, security, affection and more attention than most men could hold during their favorite past time. Women are just downright demanding as if their mothers weren’t enough. Most women truly believe they are smarter than men and I’m one that can resemble that remark. Sure we love’em, kiss’em, hug’em and squeeze’em in the hope that’s what it takes to keep’em smile’n. More often than not we are reminded of the exact day and time we first met, held hands, kissed and Lord only knows what else that’s seemingly important to them but about as important to us as what Bill is in a Congressional Subcommittee. We really don’t care, much less remember, but when we don’t know the answer we might as well have started WW111 cause all hell can break loose and we haven’t a clue why or what’s such a big deal. I think I know why and it’s because they want us to feel dumb, make ya sit back and think just so they know they are working some brain matter they really don’t believe exists. We, of course maybe not soon enough, make sure we do some’n to appease our self inflicted sense of humor’n em. So we go get’em flowers, some form of jewelry or whatever we believe gets us out of this doghouse of guilt for some’n we will never understand much less comprehend. Pavlov’s dog couldn’t be reduced from a bite to a bark any faster than a woman gains control of our minds, course she’ll say what MIND?

Crisis of Perception

This is something I wrote in February, 2008. Little did I know how profound it was at the time and what it is now.

Crisis of Perception
Today our world is facing what we could call a “crisis of or in perception”. Our world is each of us, you, me and every human on this planet. What we perceive or led to believe is what we feel is reality. Today I ask simply what is “REAL”. From global warming to massive debt ridden economic situations and concerns. Massive population growth eroding natural resources and the very environment we hope will continue to sustain our lives. One truth is each person on earth is very real and what we need to sustain us in the form of our natural resources is certainly real. We all need food, water, shelter and some form of value to obtain necessities for us to live, hopefully not just survive in the process. The form of value is money and money is currency and currency is merely a piece of paper with a value as long as someone accepts it as such. Amid all this today we have a society functioning on debt. The ability, or better, the availability of governments, companies and each of us to use debt in order to have money. Now let’s discuss “perception” as reality in the world today.
To be truly “successful” in America today all you need is to have money or appear to have it. To do that you need credit and when one credit bubble bursts along comes another one as long as you continue to be “perceived” as having value. Where or how is this value perceived?. Today the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has a debt margin at a record high of $285 billion. Global mergers and acquisitions (funded with debt) have reached an all time high of more than $1 trillion and this has happened in just a matter of months. Global debt has increased 5 times faster than the world’s Gross National Product (GNP). Corporate bonds have increased at the rate of 22%. Junk bonds are up 30%. Leveraged buyouts according to the Bloomberg report are up 40% and all this with financiers collecting $2 billion in fees. Where does all this money come from? Are people saving so much money that banks have an extra trillion to lend to money shufflers? No, of course not. We have “hedge funds” which cover ¾’s of “junk bond” debt. The world’s credit system is no longer controlled by banks thus not controlled by bank regulators. There are these huge, dark “pools of liquidity” outside of the banking system. How do they work? I really don’t know but we do know they seemingly make the world a richer place. Wall Street, Media moguls and especially our politicians in Washington are working double-time to convince us the U.S. economy is much richer than it really is. In this deep-in-debt economy, the kind of disinformation or misinformation is becoming increasingly harmful to “REAL” wealth and investment. Incidents such as Enron and more recently New Century Financial are examples of “perception” vs. “reality”.
The real world for the average American is more and more a matter of dealing with frustration. They drive more even though oil has climbed back over $65 and gasoline is at record prices. Americans today tend to borrow and spend more even amid a rising lack of confidence in politicians, governments, companies or their own future ability to pay the debt being incurred. States like Florida are experiencing declining tax revenues for the first time in over 30 years. I don’t always believe statistics as they can be manipulated, however it doesn’t take a poll or science to know America is engulfed in mass confusion. The haves greatly outnumber the have-nots and the percentage today is wider than it’s been since the 1920’s. Mankind by nature is a collective animal.
Black vs. white, democrat vs. republican, Protestant vs. Catholic, Muslim vs. Christian, lower income vs. upper income, liberal vs. conservative. All aroused, stirred and driven by a collective desire to improve their life. The security of a good job, trust in the ability of those elected to manage and control their needs and concerns have all but slipped away as silently as a thief in the night. Home sweet home, Moms apple pie has become far too crusty!
How many of you today trust bankers, lawyers, doctors, even ministers? You still go to church, borrow money, feel a need for a lawyer or doctor but do you still have complete faith and trust in your action or do you just hope and pray?

Fear and Doubt

This is an excerpt from a book I wrote and thought I would share it. No, I have never published the book which I titled "HI".

Fear and Doubt
Why?
“Fear not thou art with me”. Have you ever felt those words in your heart? I felt those words in a poem I wrote as it flowed through my fingertips. We aren’t born with fear or doubt. If you don’t see this then watch a child and why we say NO so many times it almost scares us watching what a child will get into as they start testing their ability to move and find things. In a way, we create fear and doubt in a child because we know they need to learn what can hurt them. What started of the MIND as we learn can just as easily become a FEELING in our BEING. FEAR and DOUBT are very, very significant barriers to how one FEELS and grows in their HEART. These FEELINGS so often become of the MIND to protect our HEART but we “think” we FEEL it in our HEART. FEAR and DOUBT are NOT feelings in our HEART. These are negative FEELINGS and when you begin to allow FEAR and DOUBT to enter your MIND you subconsciously begin a process that is one of the most difficult to ever remove in what one “thinks” they FEEL in their HEART. So many truly believe and will tell you I don’t fear or doubt any FEELINGS in my HEART. They may say I know this because I FEEL so much LOVE in my HEART for others and I don’t FEAR or DOUBT it. This is TRUTH and it is HONEST in the truth as they know and FEEL it. We know these people and they are beautiful in every sense of the word. All of us question and if our questions are of the MIND in what we do to perform or make decisions in work, business or whatever else, we accomplish these best without FEAR. We EXPLORE possibilities and options critical to what we FEEL to succeed or be successful. When you do this, are you attempting to remove any FEAR or DOUBT? If the answer is NO, then you have no barrier to success. Your HEART and MIND are clear, open and in harmony with your BEING. You had no expectations yet you explored options in a positive manner to FEEL a situation, person or whatever you were questioning. Many people harbor FEAR and DOUBT and just as many use it to manipulate others. Not realizing how it is restricting their very BEING even when they FEEL LOVE. This FEAR and DOUBT may have formed as a protection during their early childhood. Parents, teachers, friends and relatives can and do cause FEAR and DOUBT when they impose negative FEELINGS on children. This occurs in so many ways and just as often very innocently. When it hits hard at a child’s self esteem, dreams, hopes, desires, passion, purpose it causes questions in their BEING of WHO AM I? As adults this FEELING is part of their BEING and they carry this baggage of “WHO AM I?” in every aspect of their life. This FEAR and DOUBT is so formed in FEELINGS of their MIND it is relentless in holding them from ever being truly happy and content as human BEINGS.