Jeff Gordon, who had a more than 300 point lead going into the Chase, got it whipped out and was actually seeded second. A driver who had one more win, got seeded in front of him and now looks like he is going to go on and win it. And that’s fine one the one hand. You can say that because Jimmie Johnson won the most races he should win the championship, but what about his 4 DNF’s? JG has only finished out of the top 10 six times out of 35 races. He has more top 10’s, top 5’s and poles (which count for nothing) than anyone else. THAT’S a championship season.

I read somewhere that someone said that ALL sports has a playoff system….whooooaaaaa now. I don’t believe college football has one. I may be wrong, but I don’t think any other motor sports league has any kind of playoff, I KNOW the Busch series does not. So why NASCAR? MONEY MONEY MONEY.

NASCAR did this for one reason….Money…..for them…

C.O.T (also know as Car of Tommorrow, Car of Today…) Sucks as bad as the chase. It has taken away from competition and is eating excitement alive. It has turned each race into a big rolling game of stratego. With few, very few, exceptions, there is very little racing to be had in the top 10. Whoever is leading, whether they are on 4 new tires, 2 or hell, even 1, has a distinct advantage over the rest of the field. In the last race, the last 18 laps was a joke. NASCAR says it levels the field and it does do that…at the expence of excitement. You want to win, you better have good pit strategy cause that’s about 90% of getting to the front.

Whether Jeff wins or loses it doesn’t change things for me. The COT sucks and the Chase sucks.

I agree with this document completely. Rosie has every right in the world to say what she wants. I just happen to disagree with almost everything she stands for. What really hacks me is that she feels she can get away with all this and noone should ever question her integrity or get upset at anything she says, yet, disagree with her at your own risk. Instead of writing the same old tired diatribes against her, I will let her own words speak for me. These are all direct quotes of Rosie from the last few years. 

While saying she didn’t know what to believe about the U.S. government’s involvement in the attacks of Sept. 11, she said, “I do believe that it’s the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7—building 7, which collapsed in on itself—it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade Center 1 and 2 got hit by planes—7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible.”  

She said there is no difference between radical muslims who kill in the name of allah and the bible believing christians who follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. 

During the April 19, 1999, broadcast of her talk show, she stated, “You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison.”  

A former magazine colleague and breast cancer survivor testified that O’Donnell said to her on the phone that people who lie “get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again” 

In January of 2007, she questioned American Idol for airing auditions that humiliated aspiring singers. “To make fun of someone’s physical appearance. And when they leave the room, laugh hysterically at them. Three millionaires, one probably intoxicated.

 On November 20, 2006, O’Donnell commented on Live with Regis and Kelly co-host Kelly Ripa‘s words to guest co-host Clay Aiken, when he put his hand over her mouth as if to stop her from talking. Ripa apparently did not appreciate his action and responded, “I just don’t know where that hand’s been, honey.” O’Donnell opined, “If that was a straight man…if that was a guy that she didn’t question his sexuality, she would have said a different thing.”

 On March 26, 2007 O’Donnell discussed the Iranian seizure of British Royal Navy personnel comparing it to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that escalated the Vietnam War, implying Britain was provoking war with Iran stating:

She stood by the statement on March 28, 2007, stating on her weblog that the British had intentionally sent forces into Iranian waters, triggering the hostage crisis as part of a false flag operation intended to precipitate the invasion of Iran, writing:

On May 17, 2007, O’Donnell rhetorically asked, “655,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Who are the terrorists?” She further explained, “If you were in Iraq and another country, the United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens, what would you call us?”

 O’Donnell also complained of how the media would portray her as a bully attacking “innocent pure Christian Elisabeth” whenever they disagreed on air .

On December 5, 2006, O’Donnell made a comment in reference to the November 29, 2006 appearance on The View by Danny DeVito who had been up and celebrating most of the night. O’Donnell was amazed that the controversy had become such an international media news item, and joked that it was being talked about as far away as China. “You know, you can imagine in China it’s like, ‘Ching-chong, ching-chong. Danny DeVito. Ching-chong, ching-chong-chong. Drunk. The View. Ching-chong.” 

In her January 31, 2002, appearance on the sitcom Will & Grace, she played a lesbian mom. A month later as part of her act at the Ovarian Cancer Research benefit at Caroline’s Comedy Club O’Donnell came out as a lesbian, announcing “I’m a dyke!” 

 Not a big fan of Rosie

 Now don’t get me wrong. You get me in Dallas traffic and I am doing 90 and on the bumper of the car in front of me just like everyone else. When I am in the country on a nice Sunday day, I am pushing the limits again, just cause I can. But I am still polite. In Texas we have wide shoulders on a lot of our country highways, it is tradition to pull over and allow a faster care to pass, if it can be done safely. This was called Texas Friendly. I have no idea what happened to that but it is becoming less and less frequent. Probably because idiots will still pull over to the far left lane and look at you like you don’t know how to drive.  And of course will not give you a wave of thanks.It has become so bad that when I actually do get a wave it I feel like calling someone and saying “You’ll never guess what just happened to me”.  

Of course, its not just Texas. Lets face it, rude and obnoxious are the rules of the road across the nation. Heck, it’s the rule of life in general far too often.

Why? I don’t know but I think it is an example of some of what is wrong with society. The parents drop them off at school, hope they take some extra curricular activity that will allow them to leave them there until later that night, then pick them up as late as possible. And it shows. Most of these kids have cell phones and Ipods but no family support. Some of these kids are way out of control too. I have listened to them and let me tell you if you heard some of what they were saying you would be shocked. At least I hope you would.

 I remember when I was a kid. We cussed, heck we had contests to see who could come up with the longest most profane string of cuss words. But we also had respect. We never cussed around adults. My own mom heard me cuss one time between birth and my 21^st birthday. To this day there are things she has never heard me say. And do you know what we used to call that? Respect.

There is so little respect out there it is almost unbelievable. And they learn it from us. They learn it from watching their “Idols”. Barack Obama refuses to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem. Roseanne Barr cupping her groin and spitting, politicians on both sides slamming the others, Baseball players taking steroids, football players running dog fighting rings. How on earth can we expect to tell our kids to grow up and be good people if the grown ups are THAT out of control. Now I know I have been a part of that problem. I mean when I first heard about Roseanne my first thought was big deal, she’s a comedienne and what did you expect? As for the rest of them? For awhile my thoughts were so what? How does that affect me? Well right now in my life, it doesn’t. What happens to them or the repercussions’ from them, does not affect me at all. But it could and it may be sooner than I think. It damn sure will affect our kids. You can’t be with your kids 24/7 but people we have to start finding ways to make as much time for our kids as we do for work.

Now I am lucky and I know it. My job, when I am here, allows me the flexibility to make some extra time, and I know that there are a lot of parents out there who can’t make as much time. But there are a lot of you out there who can… if they want. I know it’s hard. But the time you spend with your kids now, may impact the rest of their life. The old cliché of Beaver Cleavers house has long been a running joke to most people and let’s face it, those days are long gone. But the older I get the more I wouldn’t mind stepping back to those days. As long as I can take my cell phone and Ipod with me.

The earliest well-documented ice age, and probably the most severe of the last 1 billion years, occurred from 850 to 630 million years ago in which permanent ice covered the entire globe. This ended very rapidly as water vapors returned to Earths Atmosphere.

A minor ice age, the Andean – Saharan, occurred from 460 to 430 million years ago, There were extensive polar ice caps from 350 to 260 million years ago.The present ice age began 40 million years ago with the growth of an ice sheet in Antarctica. It intensified around 3 million years ago, with the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere.

Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciations with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales. The most recent glacial period ended about ten thousand years ago.There have been periods in which ice has covered the entire earth and periods in which there was very little ice anywhere. Is Al Gore trying to tell us, that ancient cave men were the reason the ice receded? Too many campfires? Dinosaur farts? 

Ok, that last paragraph was a bit out there but so is Al Gores alarmist cries of global warming. That’s the problem with the left. They have to make everything an emergency. They want to use a wide brush to paint republicans as nature haters. I am a republican and I love nature. Whenever I go to an area to fish, look for rocks or just hike, I always clean up my trash as well as any other trash that may be in the area, when I see someone throw trash out of the window of the vehicle, I take down their license plate number and report it to the “Don’t mess with Texas” web site. (You have been warned). I want to see clear cutting of rainforests stopped, I want endangered species to be protected, I want our dependence on fossil fuels to be stopped…..I’m just smart enough to realize that it wont and cant happen overnight and I don’t need Chicken Little to scream the sky is falling to make me aware.

 I also don’t want to pay for it all. And guess who will? That’s right. Its not going to be Al “hey dear, can I fly our personal jet to the environment meeting?” Gore. His house and family alone will waste more fuel and electricity this year than most of us will use in 20.They need to take out the emotion, pull out their heads and lets really sit down  and discuss viable long term solutions to the problems.

It goes from “I don’t want to go on a rant” by Dennis Miller to “Deep thoughts” By Jack Handy.

I could talk about Politics……but no, Political talk now is more about emotions than information. And to be honest, the chances of anyone changing MY opinion are slim to none and I don’t want to waste time and energy trying to change the mind of some highly charged Liberal who is firmly convinced that he/she is right. Want an example? I was talking to my 28 year old brother, who by the way, is very “book smart”. He hates Bush and has stated that he is a lib. I asked him if he his opinion on Abortion, Taxes, Free trade, the War in Iraq and several other topics. After he told me what his opinions are I told him that with the exception of one point he was completely in line with George Bush’s policies. Did it matter? Nope, not one bit. I asked him who he liked at the time. Kerry, even though he DISAGREED with all of HIS policies. I asked him why he was going to vote for him. He just didn’t like Bush. Like I said, emotions.

Sports? Well I like NASCAR and College football. Jeff Gordon and the Gators and of course ALL my Texas teams. Yeah, I might occasionally talk about sports. My dislike of the “Chase” format. The need for some kind of playoff system in College football to bring it in line with almost any other sport played on any other level. Yeah, maybe I can talk about that.

Hobbies? Well we like to go rock collecting alot and because of my job I get to go to a lot of places that are very good for that, but can I write a blog about it? Yeah, probably. Will I get many hits? No, not very likely. But yeah, maybe I can talk about that.

My job? No, its like most others, some good points, some bad. No one cares but me and my family.

Random ruminations? Well that’s more my speed and probably closer to what you can expect and probably what I will go with. You wont care, but then again, I don’t really care what you think anyway…lol