I'm Back!

After multiple delays due to computer malfunctions I'm back and am calling on all my beloved TECHIES for help!

I have two items that I need help with. The first is a camcorder. I am in serious need of a camcorder but I have no idea what type to buy, what features to look for, etc. So I'm going to give $25 to the first person that can find the best deal on a camcorder that will last me about 5-7 years that won't cost me a fortune, plus will be easy for this computer idiot to operate. Think about it, an hour of your time for $25, I think it's worth it!

My second issue is, I have no idea how to make this blog any more attractive without occuppying my entire night. I want to figure out how to title my posts, get some cool pics on here, and make it overall more appealing to my audience, if anyone has some helpful tips on that it would be lovely.

On to some thoughts, well, let's start with the affirmative action post that I left you with the last time. I was reading some articles/posts by Justin Taylor and Mr. Ayabiakjdlajkd (I forgot his name but he's a popular black preacher/scholar. Anyway, him and Taylor were having a dialogue on Affirmative Action and Taylor was arguing against it, but the last entry I found on this a few weeks ago Taylor made some pretty good points, but he seemed to leave out the fact that in order for justice to be done the wrong has to be made right, that's the essence of repentance. If a retailer let's say Best Buy, sells you a dvd and the dvd they sold you doesn't work and you take it back and they just give their apologies and state there's nothing they can do about it, their apology has no effect except to enrage the buyer to higher amounts of anger! If they don't rectify the situation and make the entire transaction "right" then there is no justice and we can't say that Best Buy is truly sorry/repentent of their wrong-doing. Similarly if "White America", of which I'm a card-carrying member of, merely states that it is sorry for the wrong that has been done to "Black America", of which I'm also a card-carrying member of, and does nothing to rectify the situation by making things right, than there can be no justice and the apology is perceived as being insincere.

I welcome any thoughts on this.

On to the NBA, I can't say enough of how much I love watching the Phoenix Suns play the game I love! The team work, unselfish play, constantly sacrificing their stats for the sake of the team, it's incredible. I wish there was some place that I could purchase every game of this season on DVD so that I could show it to my kids and grandkids someday. It truly is a work of art.

On the other hand, All-Star weekend was terrible to say the least! I thoroughly enjoyed the Chuckster racing Dick Bavetta and the smooch at the end. I was super-nervous for Charles though, at the beginning of the race I thought that he was going to try to get DQ'd for having too many false starts. I seriously thought that he would lose, but I was hoping for the best and somehow he pulled it off! Congrats CB! Here's the YouTube of the Race, it's worth the time!

The race was the only thing that I wanted to watch during the weekend, I just so happened to watch the skills competition and the players effort was ridiculous, talk about just trying to make an appearance to get some free money. The Dunk competition was a scam as well. Dwight Howard jumping up to a couple of inches below the top of the backboard was ridiculous! And then to see the judges not even advance him to the finals. I know we all wanted to see what he could do with a few more dunks! And for little Nate Robinson, please NBA ban him from all future Dunk Competitions!

Seriously speaking, throughout the week I DVR the Inside the NBA on TNT just so I can here what Charles and Kenny Smith have to say, it's great entertainment.

On UK, can we stinking hit a 3, they had me on the edge of my seat at the end of the Florida game, I really thought the Bradley three to tie it was going in. And how about the biased officiating in college basketball, once again the refs always have to keep teams in the game. On several occassions throughout the Duke losing streak one could clearly see Duke getting favorable calls at timely parts of the game just so it wouldn't get out of hand and Duke lose by 20. Then in the Duke at BC game, calls were still going Pukes way even when their playing an away game, the refs trying to keep McRoberts in the game and calling fouls on teammates that weren't even remotely close to being in the play just so McRoberts wouldn't foul out. Fouls being called on Dudley when they were clearly charges, it's just ridiculous folks, just ridiculous.

Back to All-Star weekend, the violence surrounding pro-sports is out-of-control! What business does any athlete have being at a strip club and with their girlfriend for that matter, how absurd is that? (This is referring to Pac-man Jones and the strip club killings) The thug-life shouldn't have any place in the life of million-dollar athletes. What fools!

Now back to Florida, how about the coach of Vandy slapping at Noah and not getting T'd up! In fact, Noah was pulled away and chastized by two chumps in zebra outfits while they said not a word to the coach! It all shows who wears the shoes in college sports.

What else, let's see, oh yeah, how about the people whom I'm going to be paying a boat-load of money April 17th spending countless hours discussing whether they should pass a bill saying they don't like something but aren't going to do anything about it. HELLO, I'm not paying you to waist time on something that is just an opinion, if you don't like the war do something about it, don't waist the tax-payers time by putting out some stupid bill that means nothing. When you're on the clock work, when you're off the clock you can find some stupid newspaper, tv station, or website that you can fuss about your disagreements with the war. If you aren't going to do anything about it than shut up and get to work. It's like calling Board Meetings to discuss the CEO but at every meeting we just sit around and talk about our disgust with what the CEO is doing and will never take a vote to get the CEO heading in the direction that we want the company to go in, it's a complete waist of the investors money!

I need to say, I fully, and I mean fully support the war, if there was ever a draft I would not hesitate to sign up and my thanks to all the soldiers that are presently serving.

Well, I think that I've rambled long enough for this one! Once again, $25 to anyone who aids in my successful purchase of a video camera. (I guess I should have a disclaimer, I'm only paying $25 to one person, not 20 people, just one, so the first person that can help gets it, the rest of ya's I appreciate the thought!)

Oh yes, I want to say a special thanks to those who have recently e-mailed me or given me a phone call, I really do appreciate it for it really gets lonely out in the Wild West!

Also, if you've taken the twenty minutes to read this entire post you need to head on over to E-Walks site and check his posts out, he's doing a terrific job over there! As well as Marky-Mark, when pressed for time, skip my blog and head on over to there's, you won't regret it like you are regretting reading this whole thing.

Until next time, stay out of trouble, thanks for visiting, and come back soon!

Real quick post before the game.




First off, I recently learned that a lady that most of you don't know just became a widow very recently. I know that she'll never view this blog nor will anyone that knows her view this blog, but I wanted to send my condolences to her. Her maiden name was Amanda Brown. I knew her when I was a freshman and sophomore at Murray, she was a very godly woman and helped lay the foundation for the women's ministry on campus. I'm sad for her tragic loss, but rejoice with her that her husband is in glory right now. I can't imagine the pain and agony she must be feeling, but am confident that the Father will mold her into the image of His Son through this loss.

A life lesson that I always try to live by is when I say good bye to people I really want to be content that if it's my last breath than they'll know that I loved them and they meant a lot to me. Hopefully they'll feel the same.

I don't know how to transition from that to this so sorry for being very abrupt. I'm very happy about the way the Superbowl turned out. Hopefully Rex can use the off-season to improve and practice getting snaps undercenter whenever it's raining outside. About the interception he through way down the field. It was a great play call, the dude was wide open if he would have thrown it to the place it was intended for but right as it left his hands I was wondering what was going on, it just looked very odd.

Tony Dungy, Lovie Smith, what class acts, the Colts, the Bears, congratulations on the way they handled themselves throughout the two weeks, very impressive. Tank Johnson, on the other hand, I don't know what to say about that dude. The judges in Chicago that let that dude play, how ridiculous! Enought on that topic now.

The main point of my post is to say: I hope the refs don't influence the Duke vs. UNC game tonight! I may not even watch it because I know they will and I won't be to happy about the whole thing! Somehow those stinkin' refs are going to find a way to either make it a close game or even let those Devils win, even though the entire country knows that UNC should win by at least 20.

Consider this my plea to you all you refs that view this blog minutes before game time: Be fair, call the game justly, and let the kids decide the game!!!

One last item. If anyone caught the tale end of the Duke vs. FSU game, the refs on multiple occassions tried to give the game to Duke. The made such an aggregious call that forced them to call a technical foul on FSU's coach with 2:31 left in the game! It was a completely ridiculous call, obvious foul, but instead they give the ball to Duke! Then in the final 5 seconds the FSU player gets the rebound, is pulled down by the jersey by McRoberts, no foul called, he's lying on the floor, no travel called, but instead a jump ball is called when the FSU player has the ball wrapped up with both arms covering it, McRoberts just got through slamming the player to the floor and the refs call a stinkin' jump ball and give the ball to Duke with a chance to hit a shot and win the game, HOW RIDICULOUS!

Well, I got's to go. The answer to your question E-Walk is Tulsa, OK, Fayetteville is a two hour drive from here, but seeing the Cats play is worth a 50 hour drive if you ask me. Bradley came up wonderful, he hit a few shots that reminded me of myself, not saying that I was good, but saying that he shot some very ill-advised shots that if he would have missed he would have been sitting on the end of the bench for the rest of the game, but he risked it anyway! The girls game was worth it too, a double overtime thriller! Stay out of trouble. Love your neighbor. Remember that you aren't promised your next breath!

First off I am sorry that it’s taken so long for a post, I know I probably have dwindled down from three readers to one reader (my wife), but I’ll post my thoughts anyway.



The only thing that I ask from the Superbowl is that it is called fairly! Recalling the memories of last years Superbowl I left extremely frustrated to see the refs hand the Steelers the game. Seattle was on the verge of blowing them out but time and time again the refs had to make it known to the world that the Bus is the one that is supposed to win the Superbowl this year. Please referees, call the game fairly and don’t exert your influence and your desires on the game, let the players decide its outcome and not you!



Being raised in Evansville, IN (five minutes away from Kentucky go UK!) my two favorite teams are Indianapolis and Chicago. I don’t feel the need to explain why I have two favorite teams, but I will for the clueless. One is in the AFC and one is in the NFC, just like I love the Cubs and the Red Sox, one is in the National League and one is in the American League. With colleges, I love UK and I love Michigan, one is a basketball school and one is a football school. Now I must admit that I’ve expanded my universities to include a women’s team, I am for UK and Michigan and now for Arkansas as well. If they all had to face each other I would root for them in this order, UK, Michigan, then Arkansas. Arkansas has been added due to the proximity (only a two hour drive) so I can get in a game without having to make a vacation out of it, and primarily because a good buddy of mine and a former teammate of my wife’s is an assistant coach or director of operations (whichever her title is, you can pick one) and my wife’s cousin is the masseuse of the swim team or gymnastics team or maybe both. Thus, I have some close ties to Arkansas, but I must emphasize that this is just for girls basketball. I don’t really care about their men’s b-ball team and I hope I get to see them get crushed by UK tomorrow, for I’ll be in the stands rooting the Cats on to victory!



I guess, I’ll let you all go, or should I say I’ll talk to you later tonight Megs and I’m excited about driving with you to Fayetteville tomorrow and enjoying the Cats whoop the pigs!



P.S. If you get a chance, take special note of the K-Fed/Nationwide Annuities commercial on Superbowl Sunday, it is hilarious!



Thanks for visiting, hopefully sometime soon I’m going to have some comments on the affirmative action debate going on over at this and at this original comments by Justin Taylor found here



Please everyone let me know your thoughts and then by that time I will have my thoughts together. This issue we really should give some attention to!