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And other silly thoughts

Pink Kitty tried KHYI once and decided she doesn’t like it. So I just wrote her off. My time is valuable and cannot be wasted on someone so vacuous.

“These dance hall girls, they won’t treat you kind. They give you their bodies, but you’ll never reach their mind. Well, they fill you up with lipstick lies. When they put you down some, don’t ya be surprised.”

On a few unrelated notes, I also have a bridge for sale and even PK agrees with me that Johnny Cash RULZ!

Or is it “ROXXORS” these days? I can’t keep up anymore. I just went to Sonic for dinner, once again, and I”ve discovered that I’m lazier than hungry. Unwrapping the sandwich looks like work to me so I think I’ll skip it for now.

Trent Reznor is only a star because Johnny Cash said he could continue to be.

Is it just me or do my thoughts seem disjointed?

I think I’m gonna create a new category here for music. I loves me some lyrics. Here’s today’s installment:

“They took my saddle in Houston. Broke my leg in Santa Fe.
Lost my wife and a girlfriend, somewhere along the way.
But I’ll be lookin’ for eight when they pull that gate.
And I hope that judge ain’t blind.”

The best part…

“Everything that I got, is just what I’ve got on.
I ain’t got a dime but what I got is mine,
I ain’t rich but, Lord, I’m free.”

I’ve been careful not to give this one away but it should be easy.

Bueller?

It seems I’ve been challenged on this whole April 19 thing. I’m tired and didn’t mean to ask for this challenge, but I did, so I’ll handle it. As BoysMom already mentioned, April 19, 1775 is the date that the first shots were fired in the Revolutionary War.

It was also the date of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II (1943). That was certainly significant then. And Janet Reno’s mass murder in Waco (1993). And the federal disaster in OKC (1995).

Seems like a pattern to me. Is it just me? (Maybe there are others, too. I decided not to actually research this. I’m working from memory.)

Government is evil and people will only take so much before they fight back. For some reason, it often seems to happen on April 19.

Oh, yeah. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20. That’s a different day and whole ‘nother discussion. That would be Columbine (1999) among others.

UPDATE: I decided to research it. I wanted to add the years.

Have fun with the link, kids. If you learn anything important, let me know.

I just posted this as a comment on someone else’s blog and felt it deserved to be here. The question was “where were you” or some such relating to 9/11.

This is my answer:

I woke up around 6:00 a.m. and felt quite ill, so I called in sick. My wife woke me a little after 9 and said, “You probably wanna see this. They’re saying that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.”

I thought she was talking about the WTC in Dallas and got up to find out. I hit my spot in the living room just before the second plane hit.

I spent most of the rest of the day watching the live coverage and thinking. It was September 11, 2001 that I graduated from hardcore libertarian to anarcho-capitalist.

I said that day, “Government has only two legitimate functions: Protect my rights and defend me from foreign invaders. For years, they’ve been the greatest violators of my rights and I gave them a pass because I believed they were doing the latter pretty well. Now they’ve proven that they are either unwilling or incapable of protecting me from foreign invaders. I have no more use for government in any form. Government has become the enemy.”

Government is not a necessary evil, it is necessarily evil. Bin Laden and Al Queerda are of no concern to me. America will not be destroyed from without.

I do hate Bin Laden and Al Queerda, though. They ruined my birthday forever. My birthday’s not September 11th, but it’s close and now everybody’s thinking about nothing other than the impending anniversary of “9/11″ instead of me aging. Every year.

I don’t post much here about NASCAR. I’m not sure why that is. I love it almost as much as poker and I’ve been a hardcore fan for a very long time.

The Chase to The Championship is now set and Jeff Gordon’s not in it. That makes me happy. As my father-in-law says every time Jeff Gordon wrecks, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.” Why am I happy about it? Do I hate Jeff Gordon?

No. I don’t hate Jeff Gordon. I hate media hype and we’ve endured about 15 years of it concerning Jeff Gordon. He’s a very good race car driver but there are many thousands with that skill. He has no heart and now that’s being revealed. He’s not a “racer.” Dale Earnhardt was a racer. Richard Petty was a racer. Tony Stewart’s a racer. Kyle Petty is not. Jeff Gordon’s not and the jury’s still out on Dale Earnhardt, Jr. I suspect he is, but we shall see.

Jeff Gordon’s problem is that his life has always been so easy that he doesn’t have a hunger. He expects to win and he doesn’t expect to have to really compete. Everything, including four NASCAR championships, has been handed to him for just being Jeff. The fact is, he’s good at what he does and when he first stepped up to the top level of NASCAR racing, he was given a crew chief that is one of the best that’s ever done the job. Ray Evernham’s a freakin’ genius. Ray Evernham carried Jeff Gordon and then moved on.

For the last few years, Jeff Gordon’s been carrying Robbie Loomis. When you’re being carried by Jeff Gordon, you have problems. Especially if you’re Jeff Gordon because he has no heart to deal with adversity.

I will predict right now that Jeff Gordon will never win another NASCAR championship. I’ll put fifty dollars on it (but only to the first person that takes the bet). The differences between Jeff Gordon and Rusty Wallace are these:

1. Rusty Wallace won only one championship because he didn’t have Ray Evernham
2. Rusty Wallace actually earned what little success he found in NASCAR
3. Jeff Gordon is not completely and totally in love with Jeff Gordon. In fact, I don’t think Jeff even thinks he’s God.

I think the comparison is apt because Rusty won one championship 16 years ago and has been an icon ever since, despite the fact that he’s not very good and never really was. Jeff Gordon’s the new generation’s Rusty Wallace. As I mentioned, Jeff was more successful than he deserved because of Evernham, but just like Rusty, he’s peaked and that’s because neither of them have a racer’s heart.

Petty and Earnhardt each have seven championships. Both of them achieved that driving for more than one team, more than one crew chief, more than one car owner. That’s a racer. Rusty only managed the championship once and, though Jeff has four, he’s done all of them with the same car owner and team and all but one with the same crew chief.

But back to Rusty’s narcissism. Have you ever seen a man so in love with himself? I haven’t and I can’t even seem to find the reason for it. I mean, sure he’s rich, but he’s not pretty and has never really done anything of note. He’s a race car driver and that’s cool to me… except… if you listen to him speak (EVER!) you would think he is the King of All That is Racing. He’s not close. There are many behind him in the sport that have already, and will continue to, eclipse everything he’s ever done (Jeff Gordon is one). And that’s not to mention the fact that he doesn’t even measure up to many who came before him.

Any other NASCAR fans noticed that both Mark Martin and Rusty Wallace are retiring after this year, but all we ever hear about is “Rusty’s last race at this track?” It’s because Mark Martin has class. He doesn’t self promote. He doesn’t need to. He’s not insecure about his accomplishments and, though he doesn’t have a Cup yet, they’re far greater than Rusty’s.

I’d like to see Mark Martin win the Cup this year. He deserves it. If he can’t have it, I just hope that no other Roush or Penske driver gets it. That covers 7 of the top 10. I’m pullin’ for (in this order):

1. Mark Martin
2. Tony Stewart
3. Jeremy Mayfield

I’m not a big Mayfield fan, but I’m an Evernham fan. Also, I don’t like Jack Roush and I don’t like most of his drivers. Mark Martin is the exception. I do like Joe Gibbs and his whole team.

My prediction is that Tony Stewart’s going to win it. That team’s got it together and they’re going to be very hard to beat. He’s one of my favorite drivers but I really am pulling for Mark Martin.

I’ll miss Mark Martin a bit next year, I think. As for Rusty? I say, “FINALLY! Good riddance!”