Shit, I thought this would be easy!

   How the hell people blog every day and manage to stay funny is beyond me.  I am in awe of The Bloggess AKA Jenny Lawson, Jen the brilliant author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat, and Tracy AKA HOT Nerd Girl do this but these girls are smart, funny and witty.  I am only funny if it is an accident.  I can do caustic, crass, belittling and on occasion snarky but you don't build a following by pissing your readers off.  Probably another indication that a blog was not my forte. 
   I am confident that I can make a serious run at my sister and dad with their 6 post 28 day run with The Family Gumbo Pot blog.  So far so good.  I am like one post from meeting their post per person ratio and like four from being right there with them!  I think they burnt out making their blog look all nice.  As you can see I have no such aspirations.

   I am stoked about the Aggies beat down of ou last night.  It was made all the better that a friend told me that A&M would win "when pigs flying out of her ass waving glitter batons & riding chocolate unicorns." She has not been heard form in almost 48 hours but after an ass kicking like that she may have had to be hospitalized.  Unicorn horns can reek havoc on their way out.

   I was going to say "just say'n" but that is annoying as hell.  That may very well be a good new years resolution, avoid stupid ass sayings and catch phrases.  I have had two whole viewers thus far, so if you accidentally got this far post the annoying ass catch phrase you would like to see buried and go away!

A Little bit of Rumbling, Rambling and Ranting

   It is a new year and I thought I knew just what the world needed was a slightly narcissistic, detached, snarky blogger with a limited gasp of the english language.  After all who better to express opinions on a multitude of topics than a middle aged white guy who is just now getting around to going to college?
   By virtue of being a college student I am expected to have idealistic views and think I know everything about everything and by being a middle age white guy my street credability is already in the toilet and as a combat vet I am expected to have a few screws loose.  I should say here that I used the term combat vet very loosely.  I have never taken a life or attempted too.  I have served in combat zones, run convoy operations in Iraq, been shot at and nearly blown up on a couple of occasions.  The VA says this qualifies me as a Combat Veteran so I used the term.  I know many people much more fitting of the title than I.   Those people have a special place in my heart.  They are people that have physical scars they will carry as a visual reminder but more importantly they have mental scars that run much deeper.
  Like most people I am not at all happy with where our country currently sits but I do not fit into a political group very well.  I feel people try and find a side and stick to it like they would their favorite sports team.  It seldom seems to occur to people that what is needed by their town of 100,000 may not be the same thing that is needed by the entire country.  I am quite liberal at the local level and on social issues.  I am quite conservative on most national issues and pretty much a libertarian as a whole.
   I am a Vet who wonders if we really need to have 100,000 troops stationed in Europe, Japan, and Korea.  Do we really need half of the worlds aircraft carriers?  Do we need close to half the worlds ships of war?  I question weather the cartels in Mexico pose a bigger threat to national security and Americans than North Korea.  I do not like that we enter into wars that will never end wether it be on Drugs or Terrorism.
   I think the government needs to get out of  the marriage business and leave who can marry who to the individuals and churches.  I feel that an income tax that penalizes you for being single or not having children is a direct violation of the first amendment especially when the government is dictating who can and can not get married.
  I believe in the Second Amendment and the right to own small arms free from government imposed restrictions.  I feel that we the people should have the means to defend our selves from all enemies foreign and domestic.  To be honest I am more worried about domestic threats than foreign.  Americans through out history have done more damage to themselves than foreign powers.  We have at times tried to suppress the rights of our citizens.
  This is just a bit of who I am and if I haven't lost you yet, I hope you stick around read what I have to say and add your two cents.