Elk!

O.K. too much political drivel lately.  Last weekend's trip to Idaho was an adventure in many ways.  Do not, under any circumstances, fly Delta Airlines.  If they can find a way to screw up your vacation they will.  But that's another story.

Finally did make it to Idaho hunting camp.  Missed most of the action.  My nephew Brad shot his first elk, and Dad shot his biggest before I arrived.  Uncle mike downed a buck before hand, too, but Brad manged to wait until Saturday to get his.

The weather was just about any combination you could think of, but it was all part of a grand fall weekend in the Rockies.  Saw elk and deer every day, but no good shot presented itself to my .300 short mag.  That's just fine.  There's no way my shooting an elk or deer would have brought me near as much joy as Brad's, Dad's, or Uncle Mike's successes.

Voted Today...

Filled out the mail-in ballot today.

Couldn't vote for Obama.  He's a nice guy, but we'll never get the budget balanced with him as president.  He's proven that he has no problem selling out the environment to get votes.

Vote for Romney?  No way in hell!  That pompous rich bastard could care less about us, he's already stated it out loud.  His only regret over that event was that he got caught.  Take from the poor and give to the rich!

So who? 

Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico.  Says he would balance the budget and end the war in Afghanistan.  Now.  Not way after his term would be over.  Libertarian?  Why not?  Beats the other two.

Wanted to write in a candidate for governor.  Inslee is just another political blow-hard.  But McKenna?  That guy would screw us state employees over royally.  Just like he did with the lawyers who have had to work for the weasel in the state attorney general's office.  But would he take a benefits and pay cut?  Are you kidding? 

So I had to vote for Inslee, dammit.

Voted AGAINST Dunn for attorney general.  Dunn might just be more qualified than Ferguson, but only a real slimeball would run the nasty adds Dunn's been running.  Haven't seen the same sleazy tactics from Ferguson.  So he gets the vote.

Charter schools?  What a scam.

Legalize Marijuana?  Why is it illegal to begin with?  Worse than alcohol?  Look at the drunk driving deaths.  Worse than cigarettes?  Look at the lung cancer stats.  Let's outlaw everything else that is bad for you.  Candy?  Pop?  Cars?  T.V.? 

Gay marriage?  I honestly could care less.  Let them live in peace, too.

Voted against all of the measures where the politicians taxed us without our permission.  Sneaky crooks.

John Wooden, the anti Barak O'Romney

I can't watch another debate.  Can't even watch T.V. anymore without the lying, sleazy ads of the two candidates for governor bombarding us.  Romney and Obama both sicken me after tonight's debate.  Is there nothing those two won't say or do to win this election? 

Came across this video of John Wooden recently.  What a breath of fresh air.  You listen to each quality Wooden discusses and both of the Presidential hopefuls were complete opposites tonight.
 

Here's to you Coach, your legacy lives on, in spite of the best efforts of our elected officials!

Election Time. oh boy.

Who to vote for?

They're all full of crap.  Politicians.  The T.V. ads are enough to make anyone hurl.  For years I figured it didn't really matter who was president, the country would just keep rolling along.  W and Iraq changed that.

What would it have been like if the candidate with the most votes in 2000 had actually been awarded the job?  The Republicans would have probably blamed 911 on the Democrats, enough idiots would have believed them, and Bush2 would have been elected anyway, in 2004.

Now, the first stimulus package was started during the Bush2 administration.  If he had been president the last four years would there have still been the two more packages?  What would they have looked like?  More bailouts and tax breaks for the wealthy?  Those Republicans sure were pissed off when much of that money actually made its way back to those of us who pay our taxes.

Sounds like I support the Dems, but I don't.  The only Democrat  I have ever voted for was John Kerry.  I didn't believe he would have made a great president, but I saw our economy headed where it was going, and I would have voted for anyone who had the best chance to beat Bush2.

I didn't vote at all during the Reagan or Bush1 years, because I believed it didn't matter who I voted for.  I liked Billy Bob, but I didn't trust him.  Wrote in Jesse Ventura instead.  I did like Obama, but I didn't think he had the stones to get us out of Iraq, so I wrote in Ralph Nader, who actually had a plan to get us out and balance the budget.  Did I think Nader had a shot?  Of course not, but I slept better knowing I had voted for the candidate who would do the best job.

Now what?  Obama isn't even pretending to attempt to balance the budget.  Romney would screw us all royally to pay back his rich campaign contributors like the Bushes and Regan did.  Nader is too old now.  Jesse has fled to Mexico with his conspiracy theories.  Ron Paul amuses me to no end, but there's no way he would ever get away with implementing the changes he wants.  I think Chuck Turner would do a better job than all of them, but I wouldn't wish that job on Chuck.

So who would have what it takes to get us out of Afghanistan and balance the budget?  Let me know and I'll vote for him.  Or her.