is this really christmas

I had a great weekend. It was nothing but pure self indulgence. I was at the track all weekend. I instructed Friday and Saturday, and Raced my car with mediocre sucess on Sunday. I will get better, I am a creature of habit, and somewhat of a slow learner, but I can learn. Anyway, on Monday Dave and I went to breakfast at the Liberty Market. It's a really cool place in Gilbert, has great food and pretty good atmosphere, its a laid back kind of social place. Sitting at the table next to us were a group on individuals that were planning the big Christmas service for one of the Churches in the area. You know the church I'm sure. Its a BIG one, very modern and popular with all sorts of glamour and glitz. It was a pretty large group, all men incidentally, and they were planning the big christmas production. Music, pagentry, light show, choir singing etc. The only secular thing I heard them planning at all was the fact that they had 18 baptism's to crank out at two minutes a piece. Two minutes. They were treating these very special events in a family's life as if they were infringing on their production of christmas. If christianity has gotten to this point. Count me out.

Thankful For?

Since its Thanksgiving Day I thought I might waste some time and talk about the things I'm thankful for, or should be.
First I am thankful that I have a partner that loves and respects me and is patient enough to let me find my way. I am thankful that I have the best friends in the world, new and old, horse friends, car friends, and just fun people to hang around with. I am thankful that I was born and live in America! Even though I dont like most of the elected officials that we have in office Especially Obama and Pelosi, I would expect someone like her from California, I am smart enough to realize many other countries dont even get the choice. How many other people in the world today get to enjoy college and pro sports, horses, medicinal marijuana, club car racing,Nascar, 80,000 screaming rednecks cant be wrong!!!, and being allowed to load your family up in the car and travel to visit family and friends anytime you get the urge. I am really glad that the protests that were being promoted at the airports didnt materialize. I dont fly much but I'm damn sure I dont want to be sitting next to some radical idiot with plastic explosives in his pants when he blows his ass off. All of these people protesting need to be thankful they they are allowed that right, and then they need to take the bus or the train. Greyhound and Amtrak need the business.
I am thankful that I live in a country where General Motors has survived and still produces the Corvette, despite our socialist president trying to take control and kill the car that keeps the hope and dreams of millions of kids and adults alive.
I am thankful that I have trained and shown some of the most talented horses in the world. I'm even thankful for that rotten little bastard Hannibal, who in his own little perverse way loves me just as much as I love him.
So today when you sit down with family and friends to enjoy all the benefits allowed us on this great day. Take a minute to truly appreciate what you have, and what you are allowed to have.

If you touch my junk I'll have you arrested

Oh please, at my age I'd almost consider paying someone to "touch my junk". Ive watched a few of the news reports today covering this controversy about the full body scans and the pat downs that people are going thru in airports. Ive said previously that I dont want to get on a flight where somebody didnt have to go thru these security measures. I dont see what the problem is. WE areLUCKY enough to live in a country that affords us freedoms that other countries dont allow their citizens. With all the reports in the news lately about packages that are intercepted before they blow up, and passengers with bombs in their shoes and underwear, I would think that they would appreciate all the trouble the airlines have to go thru to insure their safety. Just think about all the added cost of the equipment, and the extra tsa agents now required for every airport. And people still want to fly accross country for $100.00. Think about this for a minute. Nobody knows what kind of bomb blew up flight 109 to Lockerbie Scottland. Do you think those passengers and their families would have liked to have been patted down versus being blown to bits by someone with radical beliefs. Think about that when you sit down to a nice Thanksgiving dinner next week. And the little girl who was screaming stop touching me. I dont know who deserves to have their ass paddled more. Her or her mother.

Business AS USUAL

Wake up America. If you think that things will change after the election, then you must be living in a world different than the rest of us. Listening to the Obama press conference it is painfully clear that while he may be disappointed. He is not giving one inch on his agenda. Dont forget. As the president he has the power to veto any bill that comes before him. He is definitely arrogant enough to use it. There are obvious key statements that he has used in todays press conference that the american public should pay attention to are. I will will discuss with Pelosi, She still will have some power over him, and IF the republicans have proper ideas he will consider them. Nothing has changed in his mind. He believes he is beyond reproach. Please let the next two years pass quickly!!!

Vote

I know that I am pretty good at bitching about things. Our country, government, kids, stupid drivers, stupid people etc. Today it's different, as much as I bitch, I am also smart enough to know that we live in a great country. There are plenty of countries in the world today that do not have the potential for greatness that our country has. Many people of the world will never have the chance for greatness as individual as we do here in America. The way our government works the only chance we have for change and to get control of our government is to vote. Its the only way to make your voice heard. So get off your ass and vote. It's IMPORTANT!!! , and then have a great day.