I have always loved this country. NOW, I am proud of it again.

I never thought i would see this day. this night is as important as any revolution in any country around the world. it is a wholesale rejection of the failed policies of the past nearly 30 years. Reagan’s “Revolution” pushed this country down a path of askewed values, war mongering, and raw greed. That is now dead. it died at 11pm eastern time 11-4-08 when the polls closed in the western states.

Also what died tonight is pessimism. sure, it may be resurrected at some point in the future, but for now, we have an opportunity to move this country forward, to rebuild our status around the world, and to finally, FINALLY heal the wounds of our past. it is no small point of symbolism to have a black man as our new president. it is a tribute. a tribute to what CAN be achieved in this country.

there are no longer any excuses. now we must get to work.

My oldest daughters 15th birthday is January 20th. I have a feeling that i know where we will be.

if any more proof where needed…..

that Debbie Schlussel is a racist CUNT (yeah spelled it out that time) … all the evidence is right here.

her words… and I quote….

Colin Powell was a liberal and has been a fan of skin-color-based affirmative action, from which he’s benefited his entire life. Skin color, in no short measure is why he became a General, why he got promoted to the top of America’s military, why he was chosen for a key role in both Bush, father and son, administrations, and why he was given a coveted position on AOL’s board, which made him an instant gazillionaire, once his son (also benefitting from Bush-based affirmative action) approved the deal as head of the FCC.

WOW! talk about  racist CUNT! she is a wide open gaping, two over-cooked pieces of fajita meat, skin gash infected with sores type of CUNT.

And to think, some people shrink in fear of this pathetic (non)woman. I guess that is because they must feel comfortable associating with racist bigots as long as they fit their particular political point of view. or is it that they just share the same feelings?

by the way… take a look at some of the disgusting comments on the bottom of the page. warning, they will make your stomach churn… Or at least they should.

aloways been a fan of TC too….

LOVE abbot and costello too…

I LOVE Family guy…

this is a great cover done by springsten….

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CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO BUY A SHIRT!

sometimes you gotta do… whatcha gotta do.

I had taken down a post about a trip we took in june by request of a friend and business associate because we were being harassed by Debbie Schlussel…  she was calling me a porn peddler… and attempted to publicly “expose” me on a chat board I am a frequent contributor to. Her intent was to damage me as a person, and to cost me money. she succeeded. Good job Debbie hope your proud. Did you happen to read the entire blog see that I am a father of 4 girls? Did you see that I have a very healthy and vibrant relationship with my wife of 14 years, who also happens to be my high school sweetheart (been together 20 years now)? How about the part where I railed against an insurance company defining the extraction of my dead son from my wife’s body this past February as an “abortion”?  nope… all you saw were pictures, took them out of context and called me a smut peddler.

Nice to see that you can read in context.

why did you do this? oooh… it is because I called you out on being a racist and a fraud. I called you a C*@T (didn’t even spell it out, but you obviously have heard a word aimed at you that contained those 2 letters before, and assumed i was calling you something specific).  A single word… not even spelled out from me on an anonymous chat board (you as a public figure are open to public criticism btw….) sent you into such a rage that you found it necessary to try and destroy my work and a project that I poured blood, sweat and tears into. kinda proves that you just might ACTUALLY be that word that upset you so doesn’t it?

the post that so offended you is now back up.

Enjoy it.

Being a lawyer,you may at the same time want to look up some legal terms. One in particular would be Tortious interference.

the needle and the beauty done

been a little while since I have posted.

many reasons why, but I do not wish to go into them right now. lets just say, when a project I am working on is finished, there will be a series of very interesting posts up here.. . .

in the mean time….yesterday, katie went and got these done.

she has been wanting to do it for a long … long time… but, the thought was always about breast feeding children, and how they would effect things. we came to a decision and a realization that our days of bringing new lives into this world is done. we have 4 amazing, beautiful daughters… and one son who just didnt make it.we are incredibly blessed with those. so… katie went and met the needle again. both sides. she said the left side wasnt too bad, but the right hurt like the dickens.

she is very pleased with the result.

the trip

back again… by popular request…..

I was getting ready to make a post on Wednesday about how that day should have been the birthday of our son, Quinn…. when I received a phone call. it was from clients of mine whom I am working on several projects with, not the least of which being their radio show. everyone was in a panic about a web-a-thon that they were participating in from Kansas. we had been working with the staff out there about having our boy broadcast live from there for the webcast. in my conversation that day, it became apparent to me, and then everyone else… that i was going to have to go out there.

a road trip it was…. but i didn’t want to go by myself…. talking to katie, I asked her if she wanted to call off work, and go with me. . . she said “YEAH”! we got my parent to watch the girls, someone to look in on the dog and cat… a stop off at guitar center for a couple extras I was going to need… and we were off!

my God, that was fun. we needed it. Katie was incredibly sad the day before thinking about how that was her scheduled day for induction, and I was also in a rather bummed mood for the same reason. this REALLY could not have come at a better time. we havent laughed that much, or genuinely just enjoyed each other by ourselves that much in a long time.

we ended up leaving Detroit around 10pm… it was going to be an all night drive, being that I had to test the webcam and audio around 2pm eastern on Thursday. other than stopping in St. Louis for breakfast at Jack in the Box, and a couple of gas breaks, it was a straight drive through. I was behind the wheel the entire way. let me just say this, red bull, those “5 hour energy” shots, starbucks, and cigarettes far surpass crystal meth any day… and without the addictive properties.

+ + + =

after we got there(around noon on thursday) , I immediately went in and got set up. it was then I realized that the stereo to mono signal box I purchased at Guitar center, was in actuality… just the opposite… the asshole gave me a splitter.before you geniouses start asking “why not just use it in reverse” it did not have the appropriate connections. i needed 2 female XLR to 1 male XLR… this was reverse of that. anyhoo… I started calling around, and we found local music store that actually had the “Y” cable i had initially intended on purchasing. I go back, hook it all up, test it out… and we are cookin with gas. . . at least that is what I thought.

when it came time to broadcast, and since I had been going far beyond 24 hours without any sleep, I went through a couple of other tests… mainly, recording into my computer to make sure that the signal levels were top notch. we had 4 hits… throughout a 4 hour period… it was to be “H” with 2 soldiers in each of those.

I set up a mic for the host, and then a second, more open stereo mic on the other side of the table for the guys being interview, one of each of the elements pointing directly toward the guys. it sounded great on my end… but, the guys back in California claimed that they could not hear anyone but the host. this baffled the living hell out of me. I KNEW I had my shit tight on that one… I had tested several times because I KNEW I was getting loopy from lack of sleep. so… I start investigating the issue. the guy on the other end… INSISTING that I had something wrong. but nothing was. I then ask, just flippantly… does Skype(yes, this was being broadcast through skype… and actually worked pretty well) favor left channel? it was at that point that it dawned on me….. the other end was wired for left channel mono… I had host mic in the left channel of my interface, and the stereo mic in the right hand side… that was why they couldn’t hear them.

so, I ask the guy, “hey.. are you set up in left channel mono? ” it took a couple minutes… but he replied… “yes, sorry”. I then took the host mic right out of the equation. I set the stereo mic right in the middle of the table, placed the switches set to omni, and faced the capsules facing opposite directions. in that configuration I could pick up a fly farting it the corner. all was good. the broadcast went without a hitch from there, and they raised a ton of money to send care packages over to our men and women over in Iraq and Afghanistan. finally got to bed around midnight.

we stayed there for the night.it was pretty cool. in the morning, we woke up.. went and had breakfast … then went over to the buffalo soldier monument to take some pictures.

the ride home was a BLAST. first, we stopped off in kansas city for some BBQ… seriously… if you are there and you dont, your pretty much just a dickhole… right?

from there, we decided to make it a very leisurely ride home. enjoy each others company. we decided to take a tour of all the porn shops we could find on the trip between KC and Columbia… seriously… there are more on that stretch of I70 than you can shake a stick at… or, well… shake anything at… yeah… we took pictures… LOL

we had a couple of wrong turns (St. Louis) and had the worst service ever at a waffle house in a shitty little town in Illinois…. ended making a few other “pit stops” along the way… with the goal of REEEEALLY enjoying each others company in each state shortly after crossing the state lines…because of this trip, Indiana will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart.we ended up getting home around 6 am, exhausted, but with smiles from ear to ear.

there is nothing like an unexpected road trip with the most dear person in your life to bring everything in the world into perspective.

with her by my side I can do ANYTHING.

here is great pic of the St. Louis arch…. probably the reason for our wrong turn…