Celebrating America

You know we live in a great country. It is by far the best country in the world! I honestly don't think people stop and realize what we have here in this country. We have the best of the best. To prove my point look at how much and what people do in their free time. I know what your thinking, "Free time, who has free time!". But we all have it, we just all choose to use it keeping ourselves busy.

I watch food network whenever I get a chance. I love food, but more than that, I love to watch other people go crazy for their specialty. I watch contests for best BBQ, best Ice Cream, best Salmon, best Wedding Cake, best Sugar Sculpture; It always amazes me. I sit an stare at the TV with pure delight. Sure I may be watching a food network show about a BBQ cookoff but what am I really witnessing is, no, not some Communist Democrat plot to destroy America, but genuine Americans enjoying life! It is as simple as that. These people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the BBQ cookoffs traveling our great nation from city to city. They have rituals about how to cook their ribs, chicken or pork fat. They have perfected their spicy rub over years of practice. They come from New York, Tennessee, Missouri, California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, of course. They haven't given in to the terrorist threats. They are not worried about their mortgage, or even how they are going to pay for their new $10,000 custom BBQ pit. They are worried about whether the weather is going to be nice, they are worried about whether their spouse trimmed the ribs too lean. Their basic needs of security, shelter and food are taken care of. America has provided the opportunity, not a handout, but the opportunity to achieve beyond their basic necessities of life.

The thing is, it is not just about food. You will find this "celebrating" all over America. People coming out by the thousands celebrating family, cars, boats, coins, wines, fishing, hunting, gardening etc... This is an indication of how great we have it here in America. The passion, the excitement, the complete bliss that these people feel toward their celebration is truly a symbol of freedom! It is truly life's simple pleasures that make you smile.

YOU have to start somewhere, YOU have to start sometime!

Greeting and Salutations,
I just wanted my first blog to be short and to the point. It is going to be a little bit about me and a small agenda (a non exhausted list) of what I will be writing about over time. Finally, what I expect out of my readers. With that said here goes...

As you may have guessed, I am an American. I feel blessed that I was born in this country. (side note (sn): the last statistic I heard is you only about a 3% chance of being lucky enough to be born in America) I believe in JFK's words of wisdom when he uttered "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." I believe we live in the greatest country in the world. I believe that it is a privilege to live in this country NOT a right! I believe that if everyone held those last two statement close to their hearts and taught their kids the same we would be an even greater nation. When my wife and I bought our house, one of the first "landscaping" jobs we did was to raise our beautiful flag. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics and in philosophy. (sn: Philosophy is not all just about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, it also has a lot to do with logic. How arguments can be constructed and easily riped apart, truth tables and truth trees etc...)

But if you will come back from time to time, or you can be alerted via email when I post a new blog I am going to discuss the following topics.
About Me (This is one of my favorite topics, as I am usually right)
Then I will start off light with some fluff:

• Celebrating America
  
• Celebrating Mans best friend: Dogs
  

I will move to some more robust discussions:

• The American Flag -- Whether or not we should have a law to protect it.
  
• Abortion
  
• MinuteMan Project (Illegal Immigration)
  
• The Pledge of Allegiance
  
• Senator Zell Miller
  
• Voting
  

Now for your part. Sure you could just read and grin, but I want more. I want discussions, facts, intellectual stimulation. If I am wrong, tell me why and how I am wrong. If you agree, share you thoughts. But the most important thing I want you to do is whether you agree or disagree CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN!! Almost all day I listen to talk radio, (mostly slanted to the right) all the hosts no matter who they are, all get fired up, red hot about some political topic then move to commercial or to another topic. This really makes me agry. They have this huge audience and they never put them to work. They never call them to action. Maybe they know something I don't. Maybe they know what I am about to ask you will never happen. But what I want is for America to join back together and take back our country. I want you to be engaged enough to email, fax, write or call your congressmen up and let them know what you're thinking and that you are a voting AMERICAN! I want you and I to be part of a the largest "lobbist" group in America. This may be just a utopia or a mirage, but you have to start somewhere, you have to start sometime!