About Me

My dear mother told me once that there are only three things that can drive a man to insanity:  Sex, politics, and religion.  And she couldn’t have been more right. Through the years, I’ve added my own clause to this self-evident truth.  You’re going to get fucked at some point by all three, but in only one of them, is it going to be worthwhile. 

Like many of us, in my younger college years, I was adrift in an ocean of liberalism.  Like all ‘know it all college kids’ I was flexing my new wings of responsibility by challenging the system.  Didn’t know the facts, but everyone in college was doing it so why not?  Hell, even the professors were on board!  

I remember celebrating the election of Bill Clinton at a keg party.  Go dawgs! Everyone was frantic with elation that Clinton was coming into power, and George Bush (whom I placed my first ever Presidential vote for) was leaving office.   At some point, during the celebration a buddy approached and stated, “Why are you happy Clinton is in office now?  My girlfriend’s dad says it’s going to be terrible for business.”  I can’t quite remember my response, because I don’t think I really gave one besides the typical liberal response of, “Go figure a greedy business goon would say that!”  Naïve, yes I know. But I clearly remember to this day that I didn’t know why.  I was dancing to the rhythm not knowing where the beat was coming from.

After college, I’m not proud to say that I voted for Clinton again.  Why?  Don’t really know, but at some point, while in the throes of trying to make my claim in the corporate world, I had a political awakening.  I was working for a sign company, making those large wooden signs you see on the roadside advertising new neighborhoods.  I was stuck in a workshop with a dusty old carpenter whose vocabulary was limited to “Mornin’” and “Later”.  We would have worked in complete silence had he not had a strong affinity to Neal Boortz.  I was trapped in a talk-radio, saw-dust hell.

Stuck in this Atlanta suburb sweatshop forced me to listen to the other side of the coin.  Liberals will call it brain-washing.  I call it, enlightenment.  Talk radio, specifically Neal Boortz, opened my eyes to some of the answers I didn’t have while I was in college.  Then came the Lewinsky scandal, the definition of “is”, selling secrets to China, and my own efforts to work hard and advance myself and my career.  A conservative is born.

As a conservative, I have Libertarian leanings that sometimes do not jive with the everyday conservatism.  I don’t agree with policing “victim-less: crimes.  I don’t agree with spending dollars on busting people for marijuana use, in their own home, when these resources should be used at apprehending pedophiles, rapists, and murderers.  Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world.  Guess what?  Its not going away.  The only law that should judge you for getting your knob polished is the one you have with your creator, and the one you have with your significant other.  Otherwise, who you pay for what, in the privacy of your own bedroom is none of my concern, nor do I care. 

I don’t care if gay people want to get married.  I really don’t.  Hell, if they want to jump into the frying pan too, be my guest.  Just kidding honey!  And if it helps in an effort to adopt a child, more booster rocket power to them.  There are far too many children in this world who don’t have any parents.  Having two dads or two moms pose far fewer problems than having no parents at all.  Get with the program people.

On abortion, I’m against it.  I have kids and couldn’t imagine life without them.  But I also know that a woman’s right to choose if her own, and I have no business influencing her decision because of my own beliefs.  Sorry conservatives, I just can’t stand side by side with you on that one.  We should promote adoption and safe sex.  Not abortions and abstinence.  Why not promote abstinence?  I don’t know about you, but it’s the last thing on any kids mind when they are about to unwrap the holiest of holies in their teen-age lives. I’d rather send the soldier into battle with a gun, versus nothing at all and hope that he doesn’t get shot at.

I was never in the military, but I admire those that are.  They demand my respect and if I have to tell you why, you’re undeserving to know.  Unfortunately, people who speak out against the military are protected by the blanket of security these men and women provide.  For once I’d like to see one of these liberal, army-bashing idiots take a commando boot to the dreadlocks at the next peace rally. God bless our the men and women in uniform.

Those are just a few of my beliefs.  My beliefs?  If they coincide with what you hold true, perfect.  We’ll have the satisfaction of knowing we’re not the only two intelligent people in a world of loons.    If you don’t agree with them, you are certainly entitled to that, and I hope that you comment so we can discuss why you are wrong.   

Blogging is cathartic for me.  My wife is the biggest fan of the blogosphere because my hip-deep jump into its murky waters has saved her from my constant griping at the walls.  Instead of bitching about the inane things liberals do, I can quietly throw an article into the blogosphere and remove that anger with a few, well thought posts.  Problem solved.  That is not to say my wife is my biggest fan.  I don’t think she knows that my blog has moved; she rarely visits here.  To give you an idea, I’ll be sure to update when she notices this paragraph.  Don’t hold your breath folks.

I’m not all about politics either.  I love driving and tinkering with anything RC.  I recently purchased the Traxxis REVO 3.3 and have had the most childish fun this adult can remember.  I’m a fly fisherman in progress.  Still working on that one, but the activity does deepen the soul.  Well, I think it would if I could get the motion down.  I rarely do what others call golf, but what I call the most unbridled frustration one could have with a club and an intimidating little white ball.  Blogging and politics of course.  The world of quantum mechanics, theoretical physics, and the theory of general relativity has always been of interest to me since the days of watching Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”.  I enjoy looking up at the night sky and wondering by what cosmic mystery have we been placed on this rock, and do they laugh at our foolishness.

I love my family, and more importantly, they know I do.  I tell them every morning, and every night without hesitation or neglect.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  It’s simple really.  Don’t interfere with mine, and I won’t interfere with yours.  Amazingly simple and honest.  The Constitution is a rock, not clay.  The people made this country great, not government.  Governments are a necessary evil that should resolve to protect those three little concepts at the start of this paragraph, not the acquisition of more power by taking from one to give to another. 

Don’t be surpised if I update this section from time to time.  Unlike the Constitution, which affords me the protection to change my beliefs, what I define as simple truths in my opinion may change.  I may want to add something about myself that I feel you would want to know, in a narcissistic kinda way.  Like life, the “About Me” section should always be developed.

Oh yea, I love bacon.  Lots and lots of bacon.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy my blog.   There’s alot of nuts out there, so lets get crackin’.

 JakeG