The Zombieslayer

The Supreme Court today did the right thing and reaffirmed that the Right to Bear Arms is a personal Right, not some collectivist group think crap that certain folks on the Left think it is. Finally. Now, let’s roll back some of these anti-gun laws.

Like always, uber-hypocrite Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said that because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, the country will be less safe. Keep in mind Feinstein has a California Concealed Weapons Permit, yes, a gun, that she keeps on her at all times because she said that if someone wanted to take her out, she’d take “that bastard” out with her.

Now, doesn’t that sound like something that I would say? Sure does. Amazing how someone could be that hypocritical. Well, what do you expect from the anti-gun crowd? They have no respect for our Constitution.

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We have a serious energy crisis, my friends. Now is not the time to point fingers but the time to take action. It’s time we started taking Solar Energy seriously. Get the ball rolling. Start putting out massive Solar Power projects.

It’s not just about the environment any more. It’s about slavery. Do we want to be slaves to foreign oil? No. $400 billion over 40 years is chump change. It’s less than we spend on farm subsidies and much less than we’d spend on foreign wars because of oil. If I had my fingers on the budget, I guarantee you I could cut $10 billion a year in pork, easily.

If you want to hear more about what I’m talking about, read the January 2008 issue of Scientific American. It has all the details, and shows that your energy bill will actually go down, not up. Plus, we won’t have to worry about foreign oil at all.

Imagine, telling the Middle East where they can stick their oil. Following the plan detailed in Scientific American, we can ditch foreign oil altogether.

Did you see the market today? The Dow dropped around 350 points. Why? Because of the price of oil. We need to kick this crack habit.

As for extra drilling here, no. Why not? Because there really isn’t that much. Certain lobbies would like you to believe it’s the greenie meanies who are holding us back but in reality, it’s the scientists. They know it’s not enough to be even worthwhile.

Solar on the other hand is limitless. Twenty years ago, I would have dismissed this concept as a bad joke but technology changes. Solar has grown leaps and bounds in the past decade and has become not only a lot more efficient, but much cheaper, and will continue to be more efficient and cheaper. Unlike oil, there’s an unlimited supply. Well, I take that back. We only have five billion years left of it.

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I’m proud of this last shot. No, I do not have a telephoto lens. I was really this close to the squirrel. By request, I’m going to start posting more pictures that I took.

I’m with the Mac laptop at an internet cafe.  I have my pictures on the home computer, so I’ll post them later.

My boss’s boss said I work too hard and told me to take some vacation, so I’ve been taking a lot this year.  Some days, I’ll just take a day or two off and do nothing.  Some days, I’ll go somewhere with the family.  I’ve taken equivalent to three weeks so far this year and will take another two weeks worth before the year is over.

My wife has been saying the same thing.  I’m just a hard working guy.  I came from a different Class and sometimes I feel like I’m playing catch up with everyone else around here.

We talk Race to death in this country, but contrary to popular opinion, there are huge differences in Classes and when you leave your Class, you notice it.

So with my boss’s boss, my wife, and even my Doctor saying I need to work less and relax more, I’m realizing I should shut up and listen for once.  It’s been nice.  I’ll have some pics, and I’ll post them later.

I really should remember to bring the camera every place I go.  You’re missing out on what should be some really nice pictures.  California is gorgeous, and for those of you who have never been, definitely come visit.  Those of you who live here already I hope you get outside and appreciate it.

This could be a tag if someone wants to do it, because it would be fun to do.

Favorite food - Sushi or a good American steak

Favorite drink - right now, it’s probably Guinness. Non-alcoholic - a good white blended mocha

Favorite music - Judas Priest, Nightwish, H.I.M, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms

Favorite movie - Once Were Warriors

Favorite book - This always changes. Right now it’s Harry Potter 5. Ask me a week from now and it will be something completely different.

Car I want - Tesla Motors. It’s an electric sports car that goes 0 to 60 in under 4 seconds and gets approximately 135 mpg. How cool is that?

Favorite thing to shoot - pumpkins with a .308. I know that’s meatheadish, but nobody’s perfect.

Favorite guitar - I was an Ibanez guy but that might change when I purchase my next one sometime this year.

What I’m reading - I put aside my Peter Lynch book and now am reading Jim Cramer, the guy from Mad Money. He’s easier to read. I know Ben’s a big fan of his and Ben knows his stuff. Ben told me to buy Google right after it IPO’ed and Apple when it was in the 20s.

What I’m watching - Just watched Captain Blood (1935 with Errol Flynn) with some fellow bloggers.

What I’m listening to - Don’t laugh. Jewel. I like some of her songs from her first album although that album does have a few songs on there I skip.

Before that was Opeth. If you’re into Metal, Opeth is one of the best Metal bands out there today.

What I’m eating - I’m just about to fix myself a big, fat mocha almond fudge milk shake.

So I’m reading Chuck Klostermann’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and I came to the realization that it’s not just The Sims, it’s all video games. Video games are not only a waste of time, but the end result is nothing accomplished and an empty feeling afterwards.

I’ve defended porn on many occasions. I keep hearing people say porn is degrading to women. That’s utter bull. There are so many variations of porn that to single out one group being degraded is to close your eyes to all the rest.

If you’re anywhere near my age, you’ll remember the Eurythemics song Sweet Dreams are Made of This. If you’re younger, you may have heard the Marilyn Manson cover of that song. It’s about porn. “Some of them want to use you. Some of them want to be used by you. Some of them want to abuse you. Some of them want to be abused.”

Someone gets used and abused. It’s not always the woman, so that whole argument is bogus. Unlike video games though, porn always has a happy ending. If you got one not to your liking, you must have accidentally grabbed someone else’s fantasy instead of the one you wanted.

So, here I am in my late 30s and I can’t do the guitar solos I used to do when I was 19. Why? Because I’m always preoccupied doing something else. I work 40 hours a week, have a wife and kid, try to spend quality time with both of them, work out regularly, keep a blog, read, keep up with the news, politics, and what’s going on with the Green Bay Packers, listen to music, play video games, practice guitar, and once a week try a new thing to cook. Something has to give.

I don’t even own a t.v. anymore so I can’t blame the idiot box for my wasted hours. So video games will have to go.

I just won a game today. It felt great when the tide turned and I started winning my battles. Then as it came near the end and it was clear I was going to win the war, it became anti-climatic and not even fun any more.

Sure, porn gets boring the second time you watched it, but at least it didn’t limit your world like video games do. Yes, when you play a video game, the rules are limited to the rules the writers give you. You cannot think outside the box. You have to follow their rules and play in their world. Talk about limiting creativity.

So no more. The rest of ‘08, I won’t play another video game. Then maybe I could spend more time on the guitar and conquer those guitar solos I wrote when I was 19.

It’s been a busy few weeks.  I looked up my blog and found that there hasn’t been a post in 10 days so I better just write something so you know I haven’t disappeared again.

Hope all is well with you all.

By the way, am I getting older or does it seem like more and more people I know are getting cancer? It really is scary.  Getting it late in life is one thing, but it really disturbs me when people under 30 get cancer.

Anyways, there are only 2 things in life that truly suck - death of a loved one and bad health.  Almost everything is else tolerable.  Yes, no need to bring up poverty or homelessness.  I’m aware.  Been through both.  But nothing compares to death of a loved one or bad health.

If you and your loved ones are healthy, count your blessings.  Appreciate it while you can.  There’s an old saying that goes when a man is healthy, he wants a thousand things.  When he’s sick, he only wants one thing.