This blog post about getting in trouble for stuff you did in your wife’s dreams would probably only be funny to you if you were me… and if this happened to you often… like it does to me.

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It’s official. The holidays are here. (Pay no attention to the Christmas decorations at the mall that have already been up for a month.) This will be a really short week for most of us. (Tammy is only working one day and most of our kids got the whole week off from school!) Be safe and have a good time.

Remember, the fourth Thursday in November is a celebration of prosperity and glut, so you’d better start packing on the carbs early!! I strongly recommend sweatpants.

And for this consumption based season, offer this week’s white board quip:

I got food poisoning today. I don’t know when I’ll use it.
– Steven Wright

Sorry there’s no WFHF video today. I actually worked. (*gasp*) I KNOW! Amazing, huh?

This week’s WFHF video is not a knee slapper. It’s a heart tugger and a thought provoker.

Sorry. I’ll get sillier next time. Back to the fun stuff. This is just something that I had to do.

Watch it anyway. It could change your life.

On a technical note, good grief! I have GOT to figure out how to get better sound quality. I tried everything on this video (as evidenced by the many different sounding audio clips… Sorry). It was windy outside and from a distance, some of the audio was just plain usuable. I have a mic jack on my camera, but no good mic to use, and even if I did, I’d really need a wirele$$. Sigh.

Several years ago, we put together a tribute for Memorial Day at our church. The script was actually written for Veteran’s Day, so I thought I’d offer it up again.

(These files are pretty big, so you may want to right click on the link and choose “Save Target As.”)
MemorialDayTribute.mp3
MemorialDayTribute.wma (Windows Media)

And the script can be found here: WhatIsAVeteran.doc

Oh.. Em.. Gee…

If you thought you could waste time on the internet, you have been fooling yourself until now.

Let there be no doubt. MTV is the bane of modern society. The cable channel has single handedly ruined the moral character of generations of Americans. And now, as if to add insult to injury, you can relive every wonderful minute of it for free.

Surf at your own risk: mtvmusic.com

Let me recommend some favorites:
Jacko was monster long before his surgeons turned him into one
Christopher Walken dances into history
Weird Al beat’s jacko (The original here)
Al parties like it’s 1699 (The original here)

… and so many more but I’m out of time!

Speaking of turning 35…

As soon as you hit 35, you begin to realize that a nap is every bit as good as an orgasm.

Ripped from Paul Stoecklein at You Had Me At Idiot.

Well, no use trying to hide it. I’m 35 today. Half way to 70 if God forces me to live that long.

I’ve never been one to obsess over age. Most often when people try to make me feel old, it only inspires me to act even more immature. But this year, for the first time, I have noticed physical evidence of my mortality. I now have three lines across my forehead that don’t go away when I stop smiling. I also have one gray hair, front and center, that I see every time I look at myself in the mirror.

I’m not falling apart. I’m not freaking out about my age. It’s just that this is the first time my age has actually been visible to me. That’s weird.

That said, this has been a great birthday. I had a psuedo-surprise party (Tammy is the worst liar ever!) with about a dozen of my “chil’ren” yesterday that warmed my heart to no end. Life is very good. Tammy and I are healthy and prosperous. I have nothing to complain about. My blessings transcend all understanding.

Congratulations to the USMC that is 233 years old today (198 years older than me).

I’ve had several people take me to task over this phrase from my previous blog post:

And thank God I don’t have to defend that foul-mouthed, turn-coat jerk John McCain.

“Why would you say that?” “Did you mean to say Obama?” “I thought you voted for McCain.” “Substantiate your comment.”

In truth, I did not vote for McCain directly. I didn’t have the stomach for it so I voted straight ticket Republican. Now, I know I’m splitting hairs here, and you can call me out on that if you like. My vote was, if anything, a vote against Obama’s socialist agenda.

Now, on to your concerns. If you’ll spend a minute or two searching this blog for “McCain,” you’ll see that I’ve long been a vocal critic.

Of special note are “McCain starts the ‘Donkey Dance’ early” and The John Farkus Affair in which McCain dropped f-bombs all over my Senator Cornyn. (Story here and here.)

Let me outline just a few of the reasons I’m not a fan.

• McCain/Kennedy alien amnesty… “Some have said that John McCain has destroyed his chances for President by getting in bed with Ted Kennedy on this bill”
• McCain/Feingold campaign butchery… “This bill limits the ability of citizens, however organized, to exercise their rights to free speech when it comes to elections.”
• Opposition to Bush tax cuts… “McCain aligned with liberal heavyweights like Ted Kennedy in his opposition to the tax cuts which eventually lead to and which continue today to propel the economic growth the U.S. is experiencing.”
• Very left-sounding criticism of Bush on Iraq… “McCain … accused the Bush administration of creating the impression that the war in Iraq would be ‘some kind of day at the beach.'”
• “The Moderate Myth”… As for Mr. McCain, this all leaves him … offering a political philosophy–no more tax cuts, moderate reforms to entitlement programs and moderate judges–that is actually costing Democrats votes. Paradoxically it’s a political philosophy that helps him wield tremendous power in the Senate, where there are plenty of mushy moderates. But the idea that it’s a political philosophy that will propel Republicans into the White House is a myth that this President Bush has long since dispelled.

Those are just a few examples of why McCain’s “maverickness” is directly opposed to my conservativeness.

There are also a lot of articulate, intelligent people who say his POW story doesn’t hold water and that his whole claim to fame is a lie. This sounds a lot like a foil-hat, conspiracy theorists delight and I don’t have enough information to call it either way. Since it’s a very serious charge, I’ll come short of endorsing it. Rather, I’ll offer it for you to make your own call. Click here, here, here, and these guys are very vocal about it.

Now, let’s put all this to bed and forget about politics for a few months, shall we?

I can’t say I’m surprised. Disappointed, of course. Moving to another country, no. (Where would I go that would be better? Maybe some tax free Caribbean island nation… Hmm.)

One thing is certain, I am now a minority. As a white, male, financially successful, English speaking, conservative Christian; I am *not* in this nation’s majority. And to be completely honest, I’m okay with that. As a blogger, it is much more fun (and ridiculously easier) to be on offense than defense. And thank God I don’t have to defend that foul-mouthed, turn-coat jerk John McCain.

First and foremost, I’m extremely proud to be a citizen of a country were radical regime changes like this occur with ballots and not bullets. (But rest assured, I’ll be stocking up on the latter while it’s still legal.)

On that note, let’s look at some of the conservative victories.

• Arizona bans gay marriage
• California bans gay marriage… again
• Florida bans gay marriage (by a 3 to 1 margin)
• Arkansas bans adoption to unmarried (and thus, gay) couples