Happy 4TH of July !

Well I realize I haven't been keeping up with posting as I would have liked to and I could make all kinds of excuses until Jesus comes back about as to why but I wont except that I have recently started working for a new company about a month ago and things have been very crazy and the verdict is still out as to wether I will be staying with them or not. More to come on that subject in the near future.

Today is my birthday and as I sit here in some some little town on the edge of North Dakota and Timbuktu drinking my celebratory bottle of wine and watching a modest small town fireworks display, I sit and think of a few nice words and phone calls today from friends and for a moment everything seems good in the world. Only for a moment though. On a day like today people maybe don't take the time anymore to appriciate this country and what maybe it stood for at some point in its history and the ideals behind it. This is where I stop with the patriotic rah rah speech and in light of the state of things in the world I leave you with some words from one of the greats who is no longer with us.

....... I had a vision of a way we could all have no enemies ever again, if you're interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? It's kind of an interesting theory, and all we have to do is make one decisive act and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once. Here's what we do. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year? Trillions of dollars.

Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded...not ONE... we could as one race explore outer space together in peace, for ever.

Bill Hicks

Far fetched? Maybe. Maybe not. But beats the shit out of what were doing now.