More Pictures!

The bottom picture is the sad and empty track on Saturday when it was raining all day. The top is that same day of Kenny Bernsteins Monster Energy Drink funny car in the pits.

Houston Drace Pictures

Here are some of the pictures from the Drag Races in Houston I went to and some of you may have been waiting on.

Opinions

Now that the Congress is sending a bill that sets a time line to remove troops from Iraq, I have heard a bunch opinions. None of them at least that I have heard are educated. I think that the Congress has not taken into account what might happen if this bill was to made into law (it won't).

Let me see If I can facilitate your synapses to fire. In other words let me see if I can get you to really think about this instead of just acting on your feelings. You watch the nightly news and you see and hear of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines getting injured,maimed, and killed. And you may say to yourself we need to get them out of there. Don't get me wrong I do not want our military in harms way ever, I was one of them so I have a special place in my heart for them.

If we went by the time line the Democrats have set up what happens then??

Now here comes my opinion, but I'll back it up with some evidence. It is not just how I feel about something. I think that it would create more problems for us than we currently have.

What does it tell the enemy. If I was the enemy this is what it would tell me. That the American people do not have the resolve or will to protect their interest. They do not have the resolve or will to finish what they have started. And all I have to do is be patient. Once all the U.S. military is gone home then I can make as much problems for the Iraqi people I want, I can take over the country, create another dictatorship and start my own nuclear program.

I promised some evidence now here it is. Lets go back in time, back or more ago. Saddam was still in power in Iraq, the Internet was still evolving, no one had even heard of reality TV. George Bush was the President of the United States and the warlords in Africa were murdering thousands of their own people over territory. So, President Bush sent a humanitarian envoy to relieve the starving people of Africa and try to calm the waters.

Then steps in Bill Clinton who in his own wisdom escalated the humanitarian operation into his own little war. Then all of a sudden his poll numbers start dropping. And he is like "oh no run away, run away." He let the U.N. take over, huge mistake. The U.N. trying to restore peace is like a New York Traffic Cop on acid. "Stooooop......Stoooop!" Thank you Robin Williams for the material.

So we pulled out of Africa, and all hell broke loose and today it is worse there than it ever was. That is my evidence. Look it up. Or better yet read this book by General Tony Zinni called "Battle Ready", you may be able to see the similarities then. Tom Clancy and General Zinni are a lot better authors than I will ever dream of being.

Although I am a republican and I support President Bush (current and past). I have to agree with General Zinni. We had Saddam where we wanted him before the war, isolated. All of that is just speculation and really doesn't even matter any more. Saddam has been executed and we are in a war with terrorist.

My point is that if our troops leave Iraq, things will get worse all over the world. They will bring that fight to our door step. Just because we aren't there anymore doesn't mean they will hate us less. The car bombers, insurgents and terrorist want us to do one thing.......that is die.

Starting over!!

I have been told that this blog was a little intense. After reviewing some of the posts, I had to agree. That is why those post don't exist here any more. I have been accused of being a little to high strung or passionate, which have been totally accurate. I am not going to rant an rave about personal issues whether they be good or bad. I haven't exactly figured out what I want this to be. I do not want to take other blogs and copy them or try to use their methodology. I really want it to represent me and the issues in life that I feel are really important or make me feel something, I think that is so important. Anyway I thought I would use this first post to kind of explain myself. If anyone is interested in posting here about issues they are passionate about I will be willing to read some of your stuff. I use the word passion in an attempt to get it back into the English vernacular. I believe it has been lost. Oh, people will put themselves acting the fool on Youtube. Don't get me wrong I think some of the stuff on youtube is really great in getting a message across. Most of the stuff is stupid and inane. That doesn't mean I haven't cracked a smile at it, it does not have passion though.