Your Favorite Blockhead!

Yes, this will be the continuation of a blog I wrote last year on my Facebook page. No, it does not make any reference to the historic and HORRIFIC Cherokee Trail of Tears in the 19 th century. Just to clear the air… As my wife and I were driving home the other day, we were listening to the popular listener-supported Air1 radio station. This was our anniversary of Mission Bay, San Diego. I had asked her to marry me on May 6, 2010, while we were sailing out on Mission Bay. As we were pulling into the driveway of our home, we were hearing a testimonial on the air that went something like this: a man had rented a U-Haul from a company where the manager had tuned every single radio station in every U-Haul truck in the lot to Air1. This gentleman started to leave the lot when a certain song came on. It caused him to return the keys 20 minutes later to confess that he was going to use the U-Haul to get his stuff from his house and leave his wife, but this song made him stop dead in his...

For the longest time, I have not been able to explain why I feel so strongly about voting. Well, I happened to stumble upon this old blog that Kidd Kraddick wrote on his MySpace. And the best part was, this was written during my tour in the Navy. This concept, this influence of voting in our American culture is not new, friends! So, this is what Kidd says about it... October 23, 2006 We all say we support the troops. Many of us have had the yellow ribbons on our cars. Some of us have even been involved in sending care packages to our troops. On November 7th, we're going to see who really does and who really doesn't support the troops. I think the single most disrespectful thing I could do to our 140 thousand soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is to not vote on November 7th. We have sent them to another country, far from their families, to sacrifice their lives so that a democracy can be formed in a place that has never had one. So the people will be free to govern thems...